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10 years ago
> Like SmartOS not having a large binary footprint, and not having the excellent package repositories.
http://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/building-packages-at-scale.ht...
> And the fact that KVM is from linux.
Actually that's great that it's from Linux, because one major point of embarrassment for Linux is that KVM runs faster and better on SmartOS than it does on Linux, because Joyent engineers systematically used DTrace during the porting effort:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwAfJywzk8o
> Insane, I know, but I can't afford mac
Once you're able to afford one, you won't care about the desktop every again, because your desktop will JustWork(SM).
> but I'm not gonna care until Illumos and BSD get some love from NVIDIA.
NVIDIA provides regular driver updates for both Solaris and BSD. I bought a NVidia GX980TX, downloaded the latest SVR4 package for my Solaris 10 desktop, and one pkgrm && pkgadd later, I was running accelerated 3D graphics on the then latest-and-greatest accelerator NVIDIA had for sale.
> By all means continue the holy war. Grab some performance statistics, and hook in the BSDs.
They take our code, and we take theirs; they help us with our bugs, and we help them with theirs. BSD's are actually great. BSD's have smart, capable, and competent engineers who care about engineering correct systems and writing high quality code. We love our BSD brethren.
...Annnd the BSDs involved. Now all we need is some actual fans, and the Linux hackers should start to retaliate...
But good to know that the Solaris and BSD NVIDIA drivers work. If they work with lx-branding, I might actually consider running the thing.
>Once you're able to afford one, you won't care about the desktop every again, because your desktop will JustWork(SM).
Yeah, no. It seems like OSX is making increasingly radical changes that make it increasingly hard for applications expecting standard POSIX to run. By the time I get the cash, Nothing will work right.