From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 13 4:21:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from edwin.mounet.com (edwin.mounet.com [216.145.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C141637B403 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 04:21:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hornback@wireco.net) Received: (qmail 3117 invoked by uid 0); 13 Jun 2001 11:20:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tomcat) (216.145.67.49) by mounet.com with SMTP; 13 Jun 2001 11:20:20 -0000 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: Skewed SA Mag article (was RE: Some ona knows about this?, opinions please! SAMA article.) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:19:36 -0400 Message-ID: <002c01c0f3fa$bae33580$0e00000a@tomcat> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <15143.5681.124368.758033@guru.mired.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 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 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mike Meyer > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 3:29 AM > 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.) > > > 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. Mike, I realize that... developing for a lot of platforms requires running those various platforms. But, this is infrastructure that we're talking about, not developer's desktops. > > 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. And here we go with my theory of trying to keep as few OSes on a machine as possible. *grins* I'm only now dual booting my 98 machine with FreeBSD (and I've got it set up so neither OS knows about the other) so I won't have to drag a server with me when I go back to school this fall. Something tells me that if I showed up with my entire LAN, I'd get thrown out of the Dorm... *grins* --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message