[wplug] wow
Lance Tost
ltost at pobox.com
Tue Sep 23 21:35:07 EDT 2003
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Keir Josephson wrote:
> I realize that I may be preaching to the choir, here, but, having used
> both Red Hat ES 2.1 & Solaris in a production environment, I just have
> to ask what's in the Sun Kool-Aid?!? Sun is one of those systems that
> works fine as long as you don't touch it, patch it, or do anything with
> the hardware config. On the other hand, RH has proven to be quite
> flexible, especially with regards to performance running anything
> Oracle.
I'm a huge fan of Linux. I've been a user and admin for over 10 years.
But I have to disagree with the statement about Sun. I've been a Solaris
admin for the past 5+ years and my experience has been quite the opposite.
Our Solaris boxes run great and rarely have problems. I apply
"Recommended Patch Clusters" from Sun without thinking twice about it.
I've never had a patch cluster break anything. On the other hand,
RedHat's up2date has bitten me a couple of times by overwriting apache
configs, and occasionally updating my kernel to one that won't boot
correctly. BTW, higher end Sun boxes allow you to shutdown individual CPU
and/or memory boards, remove them, and replace them all while the OS (and
any apps) continue to run. I believe if we decided tomorrow that our 4
CPUs weren't enough for our SAP system, we could throw in a third board
with 2 more CPUs and a couple more gig of RAM and dynamically configure it
into the running OS. I don't believe Linux can do that (yet). FWIW, I
don't feel that "Linux doesn't belong on the server" but I do feel that
Solaris is still a better choice in some situations.
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Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>
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