[geeks] operating systems to replace Solaris

[Dr Robert Pasken]

I guess you didn't catch the later post that said that the hardware is Sun 
Ultra-24's, x2270's and Dell Precisions; quality hardware in other words.
Solaris is the most stable on this hardware followed by BSD, and linux. 
The linux machines exist so that I can figure out what the output should 
be from the programs written assuming that the only linux in existence is 
today's flavor of fedora. Given what should happen I then rewrite the code 
so that it will compile with a reasonably standards conforming Fortran and 
C compilers. No My experience is pretty near what I see elsewhere: people 
moving away from eye-candy Ubuntu/Centos/Fedora/RedHat linux flavor of the 
day to the far more reliable Solaris and BSD based clusters.

Cheers
RWP

On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Shannon wrote:

> On Apr 11, 2011, at 12:21 , Dr Robert Pasken wrote:
>
>> With the qualifier that I have a generator backup, which comes up to full
> load in 2 minutes and battery backup for 10 minutes. The worst Solaris uptime
> I ever have had is 10 months, linux is typically under 5 days and BSD is 10's
> of days.
>
> There is something seriously wrong with your Linux and BSD setups.
>
> Either your methodology or your hardware is very broken to have that kind of
> different experience from most everyone else.
>
> My longest runtime on BSD was 6.5 years btw.
>
> --
> Shannon Hendrix
> shannon at widomaker.com
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