Re: [Nolug] server distro considerations

From: Scott Harney <scotth_at_scottharney.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:34:49 -0600
Message-ID: <45A78E79.7090408@scottharney.com>

Shannon Roddy wrote:
> On 1/11/07, Scott Harney <scotth@scottharney.com> wrote:
>
>
> Different purpose/use. I would never trade any of my solaris servers
> for Linux. In '00 or so when I was basically just a Linux zealot,
> sure. But not since my time started to become valuable to me. There
> is a reason Solaris is like it is... Long term stability. BTW - I
> wouldn't call it stale, have any of you used ZFS yet? There are a lot
> of bleeding edge things going on at Sun lately.
I wouldn't disagree with that as I work in a large, all Solaris shop
(363 boxes from ancient pizza boxes to E25K). But it certain respects,
Solaris can be a pain and it is far behind (typically
desktop/workstation software). Package and patch management spring to
mind.

>
> -Shannon
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