Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:19:36 -0400 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Skewed SA Mag article (was RE: Some ona knows about this?, opinions please! SAMA article.) Message-ID: <002c01c0f3fa$bae33580$0e00000a@tomcat> In-Reply-To: <15143.5681.124368.758033@guru.mired.org>
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> -----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 <hornback@wireco.net> 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
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