From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 13 0:29: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5308337B405 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 00:28:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 49966 invoked by uid 100); 13 Jun 2001 07:28:49 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15143.5681.124368.758033@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 02:28:49 -0500 To: "Andrew C. Hornback" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Skewed SA Mag article (was RE: Some ona knows about this?, opinions please! SAMA article.) In-Reply-To: <75414693@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew C. Hornback types: > One last thing... who in their right mind is going to run that many > different OSes in a production environment? Anyone trying to develop multi-platform software. Standard practice where I've been is that the developers of the version for platform X ran platform X. The only place I've ever been that kept track of such things counted something like 100 different platforms. > Two versions of Solaris, > Windows 2000 and NT, RedHat (which can be an administration nightmare in and > of itself alone), and OpenBSD. Six different platforms... talk about > insanity. I run almost that many on a single box. No big deal. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message