[SunRescue] a bit OT but...

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 01:23:44AM -0800, Paul Khoury wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:45:50 -0800 (PST), Cyrus M. Reed wrote:
> >My favorite is this line:
> >Although Solaris 7 is touted as Suns best 64-bit operating system, 75
> >percent of Sun customers still choose older, 32-bit versions of Solaris. 
> >Hmm, so perhaps they haven't had any reason to upgrade in say 3 years at
> >least?  That's pretty good I'd think.....  Maybe they just don't want to
> >ruin their 3 year uptimes. ;)
> Heh heh heh...
> I have almost an 80 day uptime on my SS2, and that's longer than *ANY*
> of my boxes, especially Win32 boxes.
> If I used my Win98 box for stuff other than RC5, I'd be lucky to get 7 days
> outta it. =)

IMHO Solaris 2.5.1 was one of the best releases of any operating system, ever,
that I've ever seen.  MANY, MANY places still have it going on production
machines, and see no reason to upgrade.  The only downside of 2.5.1 nowdays
is the big amount of patches that have to be done to it to bring it "up to
date", but it looks like Sun is now distributing MU (Maintenance Update)
patch packages now, which makes things a big easier.

In fact, other than better performance on Ultra machines via a 64-bit kernel,
I havent seen much in Solaris 2.6/2.7 that would really cause me to ugprade a
good currently-working 2.5.1 sun4c box.

"If it aint broke, dont fix it"

Bill

(maybe I'm just prejiduced; my first admin job consisted of "emergency upgrading
" a box from Solaris 2.4 to 2.5.1, and I used 2.5.1 extensively for two years
after that...)

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