Re: @a/c
The hardware sucked vastly less than most x86 hardware. But Solaris 10 and even 11 (despite Oracle's backstabbing removal of Solaris from mostly open development) have plenty of standout features: dTrace, ZFS, Zones; with in Solaris 11 the added goodness of a proper repository based approach, eliminating the nastiness of patch-based updating; and in later increments, OpenStack integration. Looking at the Linux rough equivalents to those first three named features, and I think they'll all seem lame by comparison. Solaris 10 had insane innovation; Solaris 11 put in the maintainability and cloud-ifying aspects that were missing. Aside from drivers for everything and ports to way too many other platforms and ideology, what the heck does amateur Linux have that Solaris doesn't? :-)
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