Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:51:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BigTime FreeBSD vs... Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980820213012.11858B-100000@roble.com> In-Reply-To: <199808202230.PAA01577@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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> Drew Mouton <drew@etool.com> wrote: > >Would someone mind sharing some info as far as how the big companies are > >dealing with performance/availability/redundancy issues? There are a zillion reasons why you'd want to try each of these Unixs out and decide for yourself. Some of the things you might find are: * Solaris has the easiest installation, best patching software (sunsolve.sun.com/sunsolve/patchdiag/), best disk RAID (with ODS and VXVM) and best all-around technical support (24*7 phone support and sunsolve1.sun.com). It is also the most expensive and most likely to support commercial application X. A half dozen administrators can easily manage 500 clients, 1,000 users, dozens of applications, software and hardware running Solaris and do it far easier than on any other Unix, probably any other OS, IMHO. * FreeBSD has a lot of features, especially security features, that nobody else has. The price is right. You can recommend it for production environments. The mailing lists at freebsd.org are great for technical questions (unless you need help at 1am). The packages are fantastic. On the other hand there are a lot of poorly written packages that spray files all over the filesystem and are simply not well written. FreeBSD really needs an integrated patch database/utility. The main gripe I have against FreeBSD and Linux vs. Solaris is backwards compatibility. Sun upgrades are almost always a piece of cake. (we're still using software compiled 5 years ago!) FreeBSD upgrades, on the other hand, breaks a substantial number of things with each upgrade. The price of being on the cutting edge I suppose. * Linux supports the developer / hacker community like no other Unix. This is great when you need to compile the latest cool tool but not generally worth the administrative hassle for servers or large environments (again, in my experience only). Your mileage may (and probably will) vary. Roger Marquis Roble Systems Consulting http://www.roble.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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