From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 13 7: 6:44 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 BD8C637B407 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:06:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 58645 invoked by uid 100); 13 Jun 2001 14:06:17 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15143.29529.264499.535131@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 09:06:17 -0500 To: "Andrew C. Hornback" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: Skewed SA Mag article (was RE: Some ona knows about this?, opinions please! SAMA article.) In-Reply-To: <002c01c0f3fa$bae33580$0e00000a@tomcat> References: <15143.5681.124368.758033@guru.mired.org> <002c01c0f3fa$bae33580$0e00000a@tomcat> 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: > > 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. Same thing. Or maybe it's multiple infrastructures. A developer group will have a collection of desktop boxes and a server or two for any shared services that aren't coming from outside the workgroup. I think the places that I've been didn't have four or five different platforms in the infrastructure were the ones that didn't have four or five *boxes* in the infrastructure - and DEC, where buying hardware from anyone but DEC required permission from the other side of the country. > > > 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* Well, that box is a test box. It's sole purpose in life is to boot operating systems for testing. In theory, there are five OS's on it now, but I'm pretty sure Solaris x86 is kaput because Linux decided to use the Solaris partition as swap. 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