AW: [SunRescue] Q on "optimal" OS for Sun4c machines, now that Solaris 8 won't run

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>   For commercial OSes, the fundamental problem with supporting enormous
> ranges of hardware is testing as much as anything else. Everything that's
> supported has to be tested to some degree, and adding platforms can cause
> testing work to grow exponentially. And systems of the correct type have
> be to be available to developers and testers, which means they have to be
> maintained... After a while, the temptation is almost overwhelming to pick
> the platforms that the fewest customers care about and drop them, in order
> to cut the development and testing efforts down to a more mangeable size.
> Otherwise, any company will eventually be brought to a grinding halt,
> anchored by the weight of supporting everything that it's ever done
before.

agreed

>   For free OSes, nobody gives a damn about testing, it seems. Do not,
> repeat NOT, assume that just because something is listed as supported that
> it will actually work. It's listed because it worked at least one time in
> one configuration for one person somewhere. Unless it's a popular piece of
> hardware (or the pet of a maintainer), odds are that it probably doesn't
> anymore. I've been burned too many times to have any faith in the
> supported-hardware lists.

agreed - but it is still fascinating, that Linux has proofed
this to kind of work.

	chris

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