[Bush2000]

I'm shocked, shocked, shocked...

[chance33_98]

I'm shocked, shocked, shocked...

I'm not. I run Solaris 8 at home, not as stable as people might think. It is better then 7 though. I upgraded to 8 after running 7 and installing netscape from the cd. When I fired up netscape it blew away most of my root partition. Not to mention the CDE and Xstyle windows system are TERRIBLE - I switched to gnome within a day.

Overall though I am happy, but no happier then I am with my 2000 servers (4 of em) I run at home. It is not the computer you have, it is what you can do with what you have that is important. Up until about a year and half ago I was running a 166 machine and doing just fine. I know people who upgrade all the time and don't really do much with their systems. I can understand it if your into heavy gaming or 3d graphics programs (like povray, etc, which are CPU intensive). Now see, I went and got off topic. Must be a bad batch of coffee :)

[Dimensio]

I'm not. You want security, OpenBSD or NetBSD.

(I run neither, btw. I administrate an old SuSE box at home, but so far I've not had any problems because I configure a nasty tight firewall).

[good_ash]

I'm shocked, shocked, shocked that you would post a bug report of a windows competitor. How many stories have you posted that point to the glaring software holes in windows? You could write a book on outlook alone!

[mykej]

Two issues here:

None of my boxes ever allows wall anyway, so it's just not an issue for me. Or anybody I know.

Secondly, lets wait and see how long it takes Sun to release a patch. I bet it happens a lot faster than it would with MS. And after it is released, I'll bet a higher percentage of systems get the patch applied in the first 3 days than would happen with a MS system. Unix sysadmins actually pay attention and know how to apply a patch.

Being a MS sysadmin doesn't mean you have to be clueless, but there are a lot more people who fake their way into a job they just aren't qualified for in the Windows world than in the unix world.