[PLUG] I wonder if I can find an opinion here...
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Fri Jul 14 22:57:57 UTC 2006
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Carla Schroder wrote:
> I know absolutely nothing about Unixes like AIX, SCO Unix, HP-UX, Solaris, and
> all those good ole systems. So I seek the wisdom of the collective. Why would
> a hypothetical admin of a nice stout Unix system want to migrate to Linux or
> one of the BSDs? What do you gain, what do you lose, and do you still get
> comparable performance?
Because Linux has current and updated software from this century?
SCO has never been a good choice. They have always been the most
expensive option out there for what you get. Now that they have even
bigger lawyer bills than what they pay their developers, it is even worse.
AIX works, but it has limited and crufty tools. You can get packages from
IBM for most of the Linux tools, but they are from Redhat 7.x and are not
current or patched regularly. Not certain why anyone would want to run
AIX unless they had an app that demanded it or special hardware needs.
HP-UX and I have never gotten along. Less said the better.
Until reciently Solaris has shipped old outdated versions of tools, did
not ship with a C compiler and took forever for security patches. They
are getting better. The Sun hardware allows some useful remote debugging
posibilities I have heard. Never had to use them.
It really depends on the hardware you want to use, the level of
handholding you need from a vendor and the speed of security patches.
Linux provides all those these days. Not certain what the support for the
BSDs are like anymore. (OS X and BSDi are the only commercial BSDs I have
used.)
I prefer Linux because I can get more than enough software for it and it
does what I want.
--
"I want to live just long enough to see them cut off Darl's head and
stick it on a pike as a reminder to the next ten generations that some
things come at too high a price. I would look up into his beady eyes and
wave, like this... (*wave*!). Can your associates arrange that for me,
Mr. McBride?"
- Vir "Flounder" Kotto, Sr. VP, IBM Empire.
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