True enough, the Solaris userland is not as robust as Linux out of the box. You can upgrade to a more robust userland through sites like Blastwave, that carry pre-compiled GNU-like programs.

OTOH, Solaris is much better at backward compatibility than Linux. I have a very old proprietary database that was once running on Solaris 2.6, running on Solaris 10. I didn't have to wedge in some ancient libc to get this to happen, it just worked. So like many things in life, and especially with computers, you trade have trade offs: stability or newer features. One size does not fit all.

The Fedora team has backported the KMS and R600/700 improvements to FC12, which I've been running for a few weeks now. While it's better than nothing, 3d performance still has a way to go. The performance of my old Heretic II game is still unacceptably slow.

The ATI drivers usually took the sacrifice of a goat to get them to work, but their performance was far superior. Too bad ATI won't support recent releases of Fedora.

I'm surprised that its taken this long for someone to mention 911. Your 911 cell call will get routed to God knows where, while your land lane gets routed to a local agency. When you call on your land line, your name and address appears on the operators screen, which might be really useful if someone who does not know your address is placing the call.

I ran across a MJ special last night while channel surfing on, I think, NBC. At any rate, they had a bit on about his molestation trial in 2005. Although he was acquitted, two of the jurors who had originally defended the verdict came back and said they thought he was guilty. If nothing else, there's a lot of 'smoke' around MJ.

Yep, he had a very different life from most people. It would be hard to be a 'normal' person growing up in his shoes. On the other hand he did have the power to try to change his behaviour, and from my limited view on his life he didn't seem to try to do that. It seemed he tried to play up his odd behaviour. I suppose that keeps him in the lime light, and there's no such thing as bad publicity in the entertainment industry.

There's a lot to be said for backward compatibility. I recently migrated a very old database off of a Solaris 2.6 system and moved it to Solaris 10. I didn't have to search for back leveled software, the application just worked. Granted, this isn't something I need to do every day, but it's an invaluable feature to have when you're dealing with trying to support enterprise applications that just refuse to die.

Mod parent up, as the above are Drepper's words with a bit more context. Nothing like stirring up the pot a bit with sensational headlines.

I completely agree; I can think of very few reasons to call someone a 'moron', especially in a public forum. I'll assume that the problem code passed some kind of peer review? If so, we have plenty of folks to 'blame'.