Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 13:41:35 -0700 From: Tony Rini - System Administrator <tony@thegrid.net> To: vallo@matti.ee Cc: keith@mail.telestream.com, Damon Hammis <squirrel@hammis.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Off Topic Solaris question Message-ID: <3989D8FF.2A954F53@thegrid.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10008031410560.783-100000@markl.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008031115030.8717-100000@mail.telestream.com> <20000803222155.A24540@myhakas.matti.ee>
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Let me preface this with my declaration that FreeBSD is the my favorite
OS for the x86 platform. It's small, fast and stable. I'm sure I could
go on touting the accomplishments of the FBSD team until the wee hours
but I'd like to toss in my .02 on the Solaris (off)topic.
I work with tons of servers. I inherited a motley collection of OS's,
platforms, etc. I have experimented with multiple combinations. I have
to give Sun my respect for the tight integration of OS and hardware. The
SCSI bus architecture and multiple RISC processors is IMHO far better
than anything I've seen Intel's camp produce. Of course I am only
speaking of the SPARC platform. To try to run anything but Solaris (or
Sun OS) on a SPARC is just asking for headaches. Trying to run Solaris
on x86 will yield similar results.
I try to determine my most business crtical servers (database, pop,
radius, dns, etc) and build them accordingly. Ever tried to run Oracle
on x86? You can do it, but for me its much more stable on Solaris. Sun
hardware, while being extrememly expensive, is also extremely reliable.
I tend to place those servers in the field where I dont have easy access
to replace a bad board or other hardware issue. I use FBSD for anything
that is on an x86 platform. Some of these include DHCP, smtp, local file
servers, LAN mail, intranet, etc. Of course my own personal servers
(Home Lan router, web servers, file servers, proxy server, etc) are all
FBSD. They lend themselves better to the cheap hardware and snappy
performance of FBSD.
Both serve their purposes very well. If you must learn Solaris do
yourself a favor and learn it on a Sparc. The differences are just too
great. If all you can do is round up some x86's then concentrate on x86
OS's. There's tons of companies using BSDi (I've fortunately migrated
ours from it) and more and more using FBSD and (ugh) Linux for critical
servers. I'm in the process of migrating some redhat servers to FBSD.
Not to start another linux/fbsd argument but FBSD fits my needs much
better and I feel the performance gained with FBSD justifies it.
Tony Rini tony@thegrid.net
System Administrator Direct 805-503-7569
OneMain.Com www.onemain.com
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Vallo Kallaste wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 11:20:55AM -0700, keith@mail.telestream.com wrote:
>
> > I run FreeBSD on 6 other servers as well as all my desktop machines. Would
> > never use anything else. I just need to learn Solaris (Slowaris) so I'm
> > not completely in the dark in future positions I may apply for. I've found
> > solaris and hpux to be the most asked for in OS experience and few if any
> > that ask for FreeBSD. Lucked out when I came here and was given the go
> > ahead to rebuild the servers any way I saw fit. So FreeBSD was my choice.
> > Not so with other companies that somehow think licenses and proprietary
> > systems are the better choice.
>
> I'm running Slowaris (yeah, that's the name it deserves) for over a month
> now. Basically for same reasons as you. The x86 and SPARC version will have
> minor differences as others told already. It's stable and _SLOW_ as hell
> compared to FreeBSD. I'll promised to myself that I run it until autumn..
> --
>
> Vallo Kallaste
> vallo@matti.ee
>
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