Re: [newbie] solaris...why not

2003-02-23 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 22 February 2003 11:39 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 15:26, David E. Fox wrote: Hi all, Just curious, why don't you people try out Sun Solaris 9 for Intel. SOlaris How long has your Solaris box been up (assuming you run one)? My Mandrake 9.9/9.1 (some

Re: [newbie] solaris...why not

2003-02-23 Thread Bela Markus
About the sealed system This is a generic sales story of several vendors, for example I heard the same about a SIEMENS PABX told by a SIEMENS sales guy during a sales meeting, etc. Back to LINUX, I know a GSM company who run the SMS gateway on a LINUX machine for abt one and half year

Re: [newbie] solaris...why not

2003-02-23 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 01:46, Carroll Grigsby wrote: About three years ago, there was a story floating around about a *nix server at MIT that had been installed in a closet. Later, their crack building maintenance people sealed the closet off, but left the server inside where it kept on

Re: [newbie] solaris...why not

2003-02-22 Thread David E. Fox
Hi all, Just curious, why don't you people try out Sun Solaris 9 for Intel. SOlaris How long has your Solaris box been up (assuming you run one)? My Mandrake 9.9/9.1 (some upgrading from cooker) has been up for 4 months. That's pretty stable IMHO, although I've heard of linux systems up for

Re: [newbie] solaris...why not

2003-02-22 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 15:26, David E. Fox wrote: Hi all, Just curious, why don't you people try out Sun Solaris 9 for Intel. SOlaris How long has your Solaris box been up (assuming you run one)? My Mandrake 9.9/9.1 (some upgrading from cooker) has been up for 4 months. That's pretty

Re: [newbie] solaris...why not

2003-02-22 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 00:39, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Just as an FYI - there was a Solaris box at MCI in Richardson, TX that I had to shutdown after 3 years of running without a reboot or anything - no patches - nada. The only reason it had to be shutdown was to move it from an engineer's cube

[newbie] solaris...why not

2003-02-21 Thread Kesav Tadimeti
Hi all, Just curious, why don't you people try out Sun Solaris 9 for Intel. SOlaris 9 costs $20 for download and USD 99/- for the boxed set. Sol 8 costs 45/- for the boxed set. You get a more stable reliable OS. What makes you stay loyal to MDK? You probably don't know about it. Cheers...

Re: [newbie] solaris...why not

2003-02-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 21:37, Kesav Tadimeti wrote: Hi all, Just curious, why don't you people try out Sun Solaris 9 for Intel. SOlaris 9 costs $20 for download and USD 99/- for the boxed set. Sol 8 costs 45/- for the boxed set. You get a more stable reliable OS. What makes you stay loyal

Re: [newbie] solaris...why not

2003-02-21 Thread Andrei Raevsky
Hi, There are many possible answers to your question and most of them will fall into two groups: technology and philosophy. To summarize, Linux gives you much more for the buck (if you can read French look at http://benefice-net.branchez-vous.com/nouvelles/03-02/07-153502.html and see that even