When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux

Re:When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux by Bluecobra on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:55PM (#25695835)

I used to work at a shop that had hundreds of X4100's running x86 Solaris 10. It was a pleasure to work those hosts. Solaris had some really cool stuff like ZFS, dtrace, Zones/Containers, SMF, etc.

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Re:When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux by yetanotherme on Saturday January 09, 2021 @07:14AM (#25699729)

And now you read the release notes with dread as you witness more and more functionality being dropped because they choose not to maintain it. Luckily there is FreeBSD

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Re:When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux by Bluecobra on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:28PM (#25702295)

Yeah it’s a shame. If Sun would have made Solaris (both SPARC/x86) free sooner, they might have prevented the mass exodus of companies moving off to save money.

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Re:When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux by jabl on Saturday January 09, 2021 @05:02PM (#25705322)

In retrospect, they should have gone down the Sun386I path back in the day, instead of changing gears and spending $$$ building up the SPARC architecture and ecosystem.

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