Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:57:04 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Laurence Berland" <stuyman@confusion.net> Cc: <lhsmith@cfl.rr.com>, "Jesper Holmberg" <jeho5791@student.uu.se>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>, <b.j.smith@ieee.org>, <thebs@theseus.com>, "Denis J. Cirulis" <monster@okb.lv> Subject: Re: About Unix <- Doug needs a good rebuking Message-ID: <02a101c0aa7e$9984eac0$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> References: <OFA420CC63.6AEAEDB6-ON87256A08.006994B1@smed.com> <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> <20010308115639.A4298@strindberg.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr> <022801c0a7c0$024f8860$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <3AA79277.32455314@cfl.rr.com> <028b01c0a7e
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> NT (blech, migrating away) > OpenBSD > BSD/OS > Linux > Solaris > IOS (I don't know much, so I've never done anything with it, but of > course we use it in our Cisco gear) We had the odd NT .... as you say it is a dog. I've sometimes thought that a BSOD could be invoked by just poking ones tongue at it :), however the Win2K replacement is a horse of a different color completely ... still way short of BSD / Solaris in terms of uptimes but its almost usable now. I dunno where Bill gets his advice that W2K stays up for 6 months or more, but I regularly get a week & sometimes two out of it without a UPS, maybe a month when a UPS is used, I'd so probably use W2K in preference to linux. (assuming no application support issues) > > THe use of linux comes down to commercial software, for which we pay, > not being officially supported under FreeBSD. Had that not been the > case, I don't know which we'd be using. It'd be a lot more of a toss > up, but as an intern and the most junior member of the systems team, I > wouldn't get say anyway. I guess our use of FreeBSD in Apana is close to its ideal, in style of operation if not in magnitude. The only relevant services / applications needed are things like DNS / FTP / http (apache & ColdFusion) / SMTP (sendmail) / POP3 (cucipop) / database (mySQL) which are all supported. With many commercial clients I can install whatever I'm prepared to support ... in a few cases I've got Solaris / StarOffice in to replace Win98 / MS Office, however its almost obligatory to use some rendition of Windows O/S in commercial offices because of stuff like the DOS based accounting apps. I've been experimenting with various emulators etc also the very nice VNC remote control thingy. Thats a huge improvement on the quite usable (but bandwidth hogging) Windows Terminal Sevices. Both Solaris & SCO have interesting products too but still reliant on having a Windows box lurking around someplace. Maybe the use of BSD on workstations will get a boost after Sun releases Solaris 9 with Gnome .... if nothing else they will get rid of that ugly great paw thats currently plastered all over the place !! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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