I should apologize, I submitted the article with a different headline: "Joyent sysadmin switches to linux". I contemplated using Ben's full name but I thought better of assuming everyone knew who he was. My title was an attempt to summarize the article, which I will avoid doing in the future.
For those who do not follow his blog, Ben was a major OpenSolaris proponent and even served on the council before the Oracle buy out. I never thought I'd see the day he replaced a solaris machine with linux.
Now I should also mention that Ben thought Sun got distracted by focusing on OpenSolaris as a OS for developer workstations. Thus I think it would be inaccurate to call the OpenSolaris forks dead, I'm sure he still prefers Solaris on servers.
I actually prefer your headline because I think it gives context to the post. Joyent has been promoting Solaris in a world where everyone else appears to be using Linux.
For those who do not follow his blog, Ben was a major OpenSolaris proponent and even served on the council before the Oracle buy out. I never thought I'd see the day he replaced a solaris machine with linux.
Now I should also mention that Ben thought Sun got distracted by focusing on OpenSolaris as a OS for developer workstations. Thus I think it would be inaccurate to call the OpenSolaris forks dead, I'm sure he still prefers Solaris on servers.