Re: Low/No Cost Unix

[Ambrose Li <acli@acli.interlog.com>]

On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 08:43:25AM -0700, Christopher M. Conway wrote:
> Working at a house that has Sun and HP support, I can say that I find tha
> term ("support") laughable. I've yet to get anything useful out of them.
[snip]

I'm definitely biased here: but from what I have seen from my other jobs,
people with support contracts usually call in support to repair hardware/
install/configure stuff. I obviously don't have an idea of what other kind
of support I should expect. (Bug reports? I got flamed once for submitting
a bug report.)

I have heard stupid things spoken by IBM (AIX) support, but I have seen
too little to extrapolate.

> I don't see any reason why you shouldn't run *BSD* or Linux in a production
> environment. I've been running Linux with several-week uptimes at home (it
> gets brought down so that something (largely games) can be run under
> MS-DOG or Losedows, not because it has problems). Remember that *BSD* comes
> from the same people who brought you BSD Unix, particularly the 4.x
> varieties which are what SunOS 4 and ULTRIX 4 are.
[snip]

For some opinion from the opposite side, using Linux of course won't
guarantee anyone trouble-free-ness. Our main Linux server has been having
quite a lot of recurring problems; but then the problems are so consistent
that the hardware is probably the culprit, so not using Linux wouldn't have
helped me :)  Random problems also have brought down my other Linux boxes,
but then, other random problems also have brought down NT boxes (with strange
consequences, like losing some important network settings).

Anyway, my shop's Internet services totally depend on Linux since more than
a year ago.


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