On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 18:27, Guy Fraser wrote:That is why the company I work for has migrated all but two RH servers to FreeBSD. I am in the
You must be talking about home users without any important data.
Many servers and workstations run until they can not be feasibly maintained, or there is a compelling reason to upgrade.
Well, since we are discussing RH's Personal/Professional product, it
goes without saying that we're not talking about systems that should be
running any of their Enterprise offerings. RH 9 is for desktop usage
and for development usage and for that standard web/file/app servers. These are the ones that are already used to and have been using the 4 to
6 month upgrade cycle. Systems like major database and critical
production servers haven't been running RH personal/professional anyway
(usually running Solaris or AIX or some such). Now that RH has an
Enterprise line you will see Linux moving into this area of the data
center. For small and medium size businesses there won't be much of a
change with the new breakout of the OS offerings.
process of upgrading an application I wrote for those servers, to be more enhanced while updating
it to compile on FreeBSD and RH without any errors. When finished those two machines will be
migrated ino a single more robust machine running FreeBSD. My workstation will prbably be next
if wine does not get fixed by RedHat Next Month. We have already replaced all our Sparc and Alpha
boxes with Intel/AMD machines running FreeBSD. I was the only UNIX administrator left that
is fluent in the other many flavors of *NIX/Linux platforms we once ran. Moving to FreeBSD has
been an improvement over OSF/1,True64, Solaris, SCO, BSDI and all other Linux Platforms.
I disagree that Solaris and AIX are better solutions, having used them and payed for them over and
over again, with their often slow patch support, they were overly burdensome. We have been running
FreeBSD for over 15 Months now and I am happy with the release rate of patches and easy to use
software ports system. Proprietary UNIX systems often have many queer libraries and functions not
reqiured for Programming with Linux or FreeBSD. I prefered programming on linux, due the more
POSIXly correct libraries and functions, but FreeBSD is still better than Solaris and OSF/1 for
programming. I do prefer the more 'standard' directory hiearchy of FreeBSD.
It really pissed me off when RH dropped elm. My god is nothing safe, from the wrath of replacing
usefull small utilities with new sophisticated {or was that siphilisticated} programs like mutt.
Next thing you know pico or vi will be dropped leaving only emacs {bloat, bloat} editor.
Most servers do not run on enterprise class machines and standard or proffesional Red Hat Linux
was just fine.
Guy
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