[SunHELP] Guys, this is not good...for Sun

[Anthony J. Gabrielson]

I will have a really unpopular view, here goes.

I have been running linux for years, along with solaris, openbsd, and many
more.  My Sun machines running Solaris are only as stable as my intel
machines running any other nix, including the linux 2.4 arch.  The
journaling filesystems are great.  The support is even better.  I sent
out an email the other day looking for a bit of info on doing an ethernet
driver, I didn't get any responses - I also called sun and they asked me
why in the world I would ever want to do that.  I like Solaris, even thou
it is odd at points.  Most of the other free nix's are at least just as
good.  

I want anyone who disagrees with me at this point to ask themselves why
sun should survive.  I'm expecting to hear due to their robust servers or
something to that effect. Do you run apache on that server?  Which smtp
server do you run?  More than likely it will run just as well under other
inx's.  Also Linux can be locked down.

Anyone have a legitimate answer to this?  I'm not expecting to see much.

Flame away!
Thanks,
Anthony    



On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Jan Johansson wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:51:26PM -0600, Robert Banniza wrote:
> >I just saw this and it is not giving me a warm and fuzzy. I have
> >been a Sun advocate for a long time and will continue to be.
> >However, this URL
> >http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO67867,00.html
> >and the fact that I heard today that Enron, Excite at Home and
> >Exodus were some of the largest customers of Sun. Scott McNealy,
> >I hope you can pull us through as we will continue to be
> >faithful.
> 
> I do not think GNU/Linux is stable[1] enough, but then I have never been
> a GNU/Linux fan (I use OpenBSD instead).
> 
> For me Solaris is a necessary evil, half of the OS is broken, it
> is 2002 and they almost have a /dev/random, their ksh is beyond
> repair and /etc is symlink hell because they can't change a thing
> becuase it will brake the 30 year old app.
> 
> Solaris 9 is looking good so there is still hope and I love the
> hardware, cheap Intels do not even have a real prom, and Netra X1
> comes with a very good price.
> 
> [1] stable as in "We do not change our packet filter every
> release."
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