[geeks] operating systems to replace Solaris

[Phil Stracchino]

On 04/11/11 13:46, mail at catsnest.co.uk wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>
> wrote:
>> " What I can say is that as a general rule, my uptime is limited by how
>>  often I update my kernels, not by any stability issues."
> <rant>
> I am probably approaching this from a narrow view point(1) (and also
> contributing nothing to the original thread) but this is my problem
> with Linux...
> Why do we need to do kernel updates for a service that is in place and
> has had no major changes?

Well, I'll freely admit I update my kernel probably far more frequently
than I actually need to, partly because I like to take advantage of new
features, partly because my new workstation uses some very new hardware
that isn't all 100% supported yet (in particular, I have only partial
support for the onboard audio chipset and the driver for my video card
is still under VERY active development), and partly because when Gentoo
makes it so painless to keep everything up to date all the time, I like
to do so.

> The change to the license after the Oracle transision has left a lot
> of people with very difficult times ahead, Oracle seem to have
> forgotten the people that keep Solaris alive and that were driving it
> into the community.
> </rant>

+1 to that.  I've made this point to them a couple of times in
discussions, that a lot of their installed base is driven by their
enthusiast/evangelist community, only now they've marooned their
evangelists high and dry.


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