[geeks] Opinions on the HP C3x00?

[Robert Brooke Gravitt]

On Mar 28, 2006, at 12:49 PM, nate at portents.com wrote:

> How bad is HP-UX?  The way folks talk about it here, it sounds  
> pretty bad.
>  I've been a Solaris admin, worked with IRIX, and run Mac OS X,  
> NetBSD,
> and Linux at home (Windows for games, and older mothballed machines  
> for
> running NeXTSTEP 3.3 on 680x0, PA-RISC and SPARC).  In college I  
> did some
> VMS support.  Is HP-UX bad, or is it simply so marginalized that  
> it's a
> pain to use because there's not much of a hobbyist community out  
> there and
> HP could care less about UNIX on PA-RISC at this point?

I am one of 3 people in North America who actually are OK with HP-UX.

I don't particularly care for the POST & boot prom dance, as compared  
to Sun & SGI gear, though.


--Brooke