Posted on 11/15/2004 9:29:24 AM PST by crushelits
AIX (from IBM) is already close to this. The OS is about $250 even on servers that are a quarter mill in cost.
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Wow. Slowaris for free. Be still my beating heart.
And the kicker is - Windows XP STILL turns out to be a better deal!
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Should I down load it? Is it like XP?
LOL- yeah - put it on gramma's PC and watch her surf the net- be sure to get a unix/linux/solarix (they are all the same) geek over to 'mount' her drives
It's a Unix-based server/workstation operating system. It doesn't have much to offer a home user.
"And the kicker is - Windows XP STILL turns out to be a better deal!"
Not if you have weekly crashes!
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Oh...thanks.
Whoa!! From the headline, I thought the sun was giving out. Don't know where I was going, but I was ready to pack my bags.
If nothing else, it will be interesting to play around with for a while.
Well, it's a server OS. Get Grandma a Mac. In fact, get ANYONE who doesn't need to share files with PC users a Mac. Windows XP is usable and pretty stable, but it still imposes too much of a knowledge burden on people who aren't computer-literate.
Who crashes these days? I haven't seen a desktop crash in years. The days of poorly written shareware and cheap hardware are mostly gone now. I think the deciding factor these days is price and functionality, then the cool factor.
Did your mother ever have any children that lived?
Unix, Linux, and Solaris are not the same thing. Not by a long shot. That you even say so means you don't know what you are talking about. I won't fuel any flame wars by saying which is best. I will say I'd a Posix based OS before Windows.
I haven't seen the new Solaris yet, but plug and play is not new to Unices. Mounting drives is no larger a task in Linux than it is in windows.
If you do put Linux or Solaris on granny's computer, she will be far safer from worms and trojans than she is with Windows.
Everything since ME is pretty bad about crashing and MS doesn't seem to be too concerned. I'm waiting for a crash at MS and see if they can reboot.
As a recent Apple convert, give me OS X any day....
That would be dtrace. A truly awesome system-level tracing tool, nothing like it anywhere else among the mainstream server operating systems. I'm anxious to proof out version 10 in my lab so I can get a head start on my clients most of whom will start deploying it into low-criticality production servers in 2006 if past history is any indication. So much technology, so little time and so few servers to work with...
Yup. The very thing.
So much technology, so little time and so few servers to work with...
I'm right there with you. We're just starting to move to Solaris 9 on our servers here. I'd really be interested even more if dtrace is actually portable across architectures. If it will compile on Linux and is usable, that would really rock. I kinda doubt it though, as it will be pretty dependent upon the proc subsystems.
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