Nobody really remembers the Diamond Rio Karma but everyone knows about the iPod. History is only acknowledged by historians, perception is reality otherwise.
Before the Karma the Rio PMP300 was very cool! Portable mp3's! You could load up ~20-30 minutes on its 32mb. This completely blew away the first mp3 player I saw which could only hold 8mb which was still amazing in its own right.
The problem with zones was that you used them to run solaris which as a distribution was a complete disaster. Maybe it worked if the only thing you them for was to run oracle.
I had created a bunch of solaris zones and then had the great idea to patch them.. everything broke.
I'm actually using smartos at home now. kvm and debian lx zones. works great. A solid platform with a UX that doesn't make me want to kill myself.
One man's trash another man's treasure. Solaris 10 packaging was awful, but IPS in Solaris 11 (soon 12) and OmniOS is great and the integration with zones is fantastic.
Well, you did say "Solaris zones UX is still unsurpassed"
Still implies that it was always good..
It was absolutely terrible in Solaris 10. Maybe it's better now. Maybe with solaris 11 they fixed it so you didn't have to chose between a full zone that took 5GB or a 400MB sparse zone that would break in fun ways when you tried to do anything.
At the time I was using xen+debian and a 'full' vm for me was about 200MB. Basically base system+sshd+whatever daemon I needed to run. Attempting to do the same thing using zones was a complete disaster.
I worked at a university then, no one was using solaris zones. I think they had the 2 big AIX boxes that had lpars enabled in a fixed configuration that never changed.
all solaris and aix was ripped out and replaced with linux.
