Let's face it: Anything unfamiliar is a PITA to administer. Doesn't matter how well it's designed, if you don't know where things are you get frustrated. My main prob is going to work and using ESC for command line completion, then coming home and using TAB. Anyway, on a Sun server I prefer to use Solaris. On a PC I prefer to user Linux. On an O2 I prefer to use IRIX (even if I can't remember where it puts things!). Remember we are talking about OSs, not apps. If you want to use GNU apps, there's nothing stopping you from putting them on your favourite machine/OS. I also administer a Solaris 2.5.1 pizzabox and man, is it slow compared to the same hardware running Solaris 2.6. But I have no choice; the users' special apps are compiled for the older OS and the application docs are in Japanese! So I put up with it. That's a case of "if it were mine, I would upgrade the OS" (to either Linux or Solaris 8, depending on how crazy I felt and what it was networked with). - Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. & Unix System Administrator Elec. Eng. Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ---------------------- This email is intended only to be read or used by the addressee. The information contained in this e-mail message may be confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, interference with, distribution, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. Confidentiality attached to this communication is not waived or lost by reason of the mistaken delivery to you. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and notify us by return e-mail or telephone Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited on +61 2 9413 6300. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
