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Of the many ways to end up in the soft room that's the most boring. |
Posted on 04/13/2007 10:47:15 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Oliver Jones provides an even-handed summary: "I've been a stalwart Solaris x86 user for many years now - I refuse to run Linux on my hardware, when Solaris makes the penguin look decidedly second-rate." For reliability, he says: "I truly can't fault the Sun option: I consider that if Solaris is good enough for the banks, it's good enough for me."
But, he also says: "To be honest, Solaris isn't without issues - the number one I see at the moment is the user experience (especially with regard to hardware support). Sun really needs to plough some more development resources into hardware support, but we're getting there: Solaris x86 is absolutely fantastic compared to how it was in 2004, but it still has a while to go. Having the likes of Nvidia on-board is great, and hopefully the hardware support will accrete with time - as more people see the benefits of going Sun."
(Excerpt) Read more at regdeveloper.co.uk ...
Could you point me to a link for that?
Microsoft's website (which I just looked at), seems to be in disagreement with you. It says that support for Windows 2000 Server is only available as Extended Support phase (which you have to purchase).
I guess Microsoft's website might be mistaken, but I would like to see where you get that information.
Do you have a link?
He is referring to security hot fixes. That is the source of this supposed lie he prays to every night. I don’t think that a security hot fix only service counts as real support and he thinks if you disagree with him you’re a liar.
LOL check out this gem of his from a couple days ago:
“I did not say all support I said Unsupported.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816151/posts?page=115#115
This goes back to him originally saying a year or two ago when he and shadowman created several threads claiming all “updates” to Windows 2000 had been ended. His famous line from back then was “a hotfix is not an update”, even though Microsoft’s site clearly showed “hotfixes” were in fact part of the “update” nomenclature. But of course he’s still to this day trying to spread it, along with other BS constantly.
Just completed a Solaris Admin course, we had a Linux guru in our class. He believed that eventually Sun's going to ditch Solaris for Linux. The instructor (Solaris and Linux certified) was skeptical - he said that Solaris had a smaller footprint and Sun had too much invested in it. Led to some good discussions.
I agree with the professor, Sun has been really boosting up solaris lately, in fact they are starting to opensource some of their technology.
LOL, profanity again. You are the scum of the scum, indeed.
So, Win2000 gets security fixes, but no more improvements to the OS. Gotcha.
Hve you looked at the American heritage dictionary?
Funny watching you claim you support Solaris now since you had to take a job working on it, when I told you back in your Red Hat days you needed to switch to Sun. Poetic justice at its finest.
I’m going to ask you once to stay off this thread. Your continued use of calling others liars, scum, and any other personal attacks will result in suspension. I suggest strongly that you knock it off now.
I'm quite happy at my new job and we are considering merging the Linux and Unix teams so I will get to work on both. In the mane time I split my time between the two teams. If they went all Windows tomorrow I would not leave, and if they went all Linux tomorrow I would not feel any more need to stay than I do right now.
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Of the many ways to end up in the soft room that's the most boring. |
lol
I guess I have little to do today! :-)
Seriously, I’ve been here for 10 years, and I have never seen someone who can be so vitriolic about so narrow a focus. GE joins in almost every thread that has to do with Linux, but very few other ones. There has been no one like him on FR.
In war-on-drugs threads
some Freepers call anyone
who is anti-drugs
a jack-booted thug.
And in the ANS thread
if you go against
their consensus picks
for who's evil and who's not
it gets freaky weird.
But you're right, Linux
seems to bring out some odd balls.
It was Linux threads
that lead me to post
the thread below a year back.
And it still applies!
If you’re gonna call someone an ass, don’t be surprised when they call you scum. And don’t bother hitting the abuse button when they do.
Thanks,
AM
Interesting, but I would have to side with the instructor. I think that Sun wants to sell Solaris and that supporting Linux at all (and they do, through support to projects like Gentoo's) is a concession to current market conditions. This can be readily seen through the obstensibly friendly attitude that they have been taking towards OSS lately. It would seem that open sourcing Solaris and Java they are trying to build a foothold in OSS land and set up their products to compete against the OSS equivalents (Linux/BSD as an OS, and GCJ/Kaffe/Mono/Python/name your lang here vs. Java).
Basic reality is that millions of people use LINUX daily and bugs don't last longer than a day or two.
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