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

[Ravi Katti]

Somehow I have had a bad experience with Linux. It is okay as long as you 
use Linux as DNS/Mail server or some kind of network box. My old sun SS5 was 
happily serving around 150 users with hell lot of NFS activity. But my Linux 
on a dual Pentium CPU used to crash even 1/3 load of SS5.
One of the developer asked me to upgrade gcc and I ended up upgrading the 
Linux OS itself, beacuse gcc required some libraries upgraded and to do this 
i had to upgrade RPM and to do this ... this went on and ultimately upgrade 
OS.

I could be wrong too but things are so easy and stable on solaris.

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Anthony J. Gabrielson" <agabriel at home.tzo.org>
Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Guys, this is not good...for Sun
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 08:07:21 -0500 (EST)

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




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