&gt; They would be eating Linux&#x27;s lunch if they were used in any wider scale.<p>Linux took 20 years to make its way into the enterprises, and well, SmartOS has to start somewhere. We are only at the beginning of the journey, but with one major difference: unlike Linux, which is still maturing, an illumos based operating environment has 37 years of enterprise abuse and hardening behind it.<p>&gt; A primary objection to Solaris zones and a reason they&#x27;re not used widely is that they run on Solaris and not on Linux.<p>What exactly is objectionable about running a Solaris-like operating environment? If it is software, SmartOS provides ~14,000 packages:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.perkin.org.uk&#x2F;posts&#x2F;building-packages-at-scale.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.perkin.org.uk&#x2F;posts&#x2F;building-packages-at-scale.h...</a>