[SunRescue] Objective facts and biased opinions about OS choice

[Dan Lane]

> But, you forgot Plan9 from outer space!  I have not yet fooled much with
> it but it is interesting.

You gotta give Plan9 a lot of credit for having the most bizzare mascot!

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/img/plan9bunnyblack.jpg


Dan - scary little white thing!!



User Bobkeys BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak sent the following on Tue,...

> Generally I would agree with most everything you said.
>
> But, you forgot Plan9 from outer space!  I have not yet fooled much with
> it but it is interesting.
>
> I did get sol8 up on a 40mb ss4 last night, so I will have to see how
> well that slobbers along.  It will run in 16mb, or so the minimal install
> says if you custom install.
>
> Of all the BSD things, on older wares, I really do like 4.3BSD on the
> VAX... lean, mean, classy machine.... but stuck on old tiny drives,
> unless we ever get a good scsi port done.  But, the modern Free/Net/Open
> BSD flavors are better for production use.
>
> OpenBSD has been best in my hands on my lowendian servers in the office.
> NetBSD and FreeBSD are about equal, close behind.  NetBSD is ported to
> everything, including the kitchen toaster/sink/fridge, but it has some
> port inconsistencies on some hardware that makes OpenBSD best on sparc,
> FreeBSD best on I386, and NetBSD best on the rest.  Linux... well, better
> than NT, and the NT crate is just a browser/mail/printer dump box for the
> dept stuff.  NT crashes, guaranteed, about thrice monthly, but is mostly
> idiotproof, otherwise, as long as you keep virus ditties off it, and
> don't make it do anything real heavy.  Linux is ok on the desktop,
> but I get real scared of its holes.  In another couple years, I think
> it will be much better in that regard.
>
> Windows is the ol' lady's and the kid's toys machines.  I prefer dos5
> with a good set of unix tools (telnet/ftp/vi/troff/TeX), over windows,
> because it always works, every time, anytime.
>
> > All of that said, heres my preference.
> >
> > Solaris on UltraSPARC and OpenBSD on jsut about anything else for business
> > UNIX, Linux on x86 for personal UNIX, IRIX for graphics and video, WinME for
> > games, and Win2K for actually workng with Windows.
> >
> > Chris Byrne
>
> Excepting my like for FreeBSD as opposed to Linux as the Personal *nix,
> we pretty much agree, across the board.
>
> Bob
>
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