On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:44:26 PST "Dr. Robert Pasken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To make sure you understand. I started with a PDP-11/45, an rm-03, a tu-66 > and Unix V7. My current home computer is a Sun Ultra-24 which has SUSE-10, > Ubuntu Hardy-Heron and Solaris-10 installed. I don't care for Ubuntu's "we > know more than you do" installation and packaging system.I don't care if the > installation process looks pretty or is "easy", I should only install just > once. The packaging system shouldn't force me to do a bare metal install > because patching one package results in every other package breaking. I don't > care for the community flame wars over "eye-candy". I do not care if this > weeks newest webcam works or if I can play music from iTunes. What I do care > about is if I can find away to shave another 10 minutes off WRF and MM5 > model run times with 4 cores and 8gb of memory. Can I get HYSPLIT_4 to > generate explosion plumes while WRF is running at the same time. Can I volume > render HYSPLIT_4 output on a laptop. While Linux is more stable Windows, > Linux has be en > and is moving in the direction of "eye-candy" and reduced stability. This > based on real-world experience. I cann't afford more file-system failures or > kernel crashes while WRF/HYSPLIT/DRAS is running. I will abandon Solaris and > move to OpenBSD if Solaris moves to the Linux model. > Interesting that you should mention OpenBSD. A buddy of mine (very experienced Unix grey-beard) just did exactly that. Happy as a clam, that he did. What's not on OBSD, bigger iron needs, he's running AIX. He spent a lot of time trying to convince me that Solaris would be a bad move. Nevertheless, after some weeks of discussion and playing around a bit, I decided to buck his advice and at least employ as development platform for next upcoming project, and see how things went for there. I could be wrong, but recent discussions here are giving a lot of second thoughts stemming the distinct impression that Open/Solaris is trying to morph into another Linux-esque system in efforts to be popular. Well, hey, I could have been really, really popular in high school if I would have been doing a lot of drugs, but that still didn't make it a good idea. -- Best regards, Ken Gunderson Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is putting a reply at the top of the message frowned upon? _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
