[geeks] operating systems to replace Solaris

[Bill Bradford]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:06:49PM -0400, Shannon wrote:
> Some of you guys who replaced Solaris have any comments on what choice you
> made and how it has worked out?

The new ohno.mrbill.net / sunhelp.org:

http://www.sunhelp.org/2010/11/21/new-sunhelp-org-server-coming-along-nicely/

mrbill at ohno:~> uname -a
Linux ohno 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 03:40:32 UTC 2011 x86_64
GNU/Linux

mrbill at ohno:~> cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 \n \l

Athlon II X4 640 (quad core 3Ghz), 16G RAM, dual 1TB hard drives in a
RAID-1 config.  I run three VMs (via kvm) on this system as well for
friends, but even with that the current config is overkill:

mrbill at ohno:~> free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         15957       9758       6199          0        355       6122
-/+ buffers/cache:       3279      12677
Swap:         7627          2       7625

It's a Gigabyte motherboard, Corsair 450W power supply, Intel PCI gigabit
NIC (as I hate the onboard RealTek), onboard graphics and SATA, in an 
Antec case.

Bandwidth is courtesy of Comcast Business Class; I pay for 22/5 with five
static IPs, and usually get at least 45/6.

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas