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by 4ad 4955 days ago
The things you are complaining about -- top vs. prstat, dtrace, upstart vs. smf, clear and comprehensive documentation vs. man pages written in an afternoon or blog posts on the internet, apt vs. ips -- these are things that are objectively better on Solaris in a quantifiable way. If they make you feel like you're working with Windows 98, I don't think the problem is with the tools, but somewhere else.

A few days ago there was an article about Linux monoculture. It's even worse than that, it's an Ubuntu monoculture.

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Well, you said Solaris, not SmartOS.

If you really believe there is more information in SmartOS' wiki than in man pages & other proper documentation available about Linux, I don't think the problem is with the Linux monoculture, but somewhere else.

SmartOS is Solaris. All documentation about Solaris is pertinent to SmartOS.