Re: SOHO SUN Server - I'm giving up

Well i tried to buy better hardware but in a cost sensitive SOHO it's
not that good. My U10 had about 65 Watt, my new server around 45 Watt
and they are so silent that i can run them in my office 24/7. With
larger/more modern SUN systems i need to change my office and get a
small server room, because i'm noise sensitive. I'm not willing to do
this.

I think i could get it running on Solaris, i just need to buy hardware
that is 4-5 times the price of the hardware supported by Linux. For
example the programmable power switches for the build machines cost 60
Euro (USB controlled on/off) instead of 250 Euro (Network HTTP
Interface). The backup disk seems to only work well when i buy SCSI
drives. But they are about 2 Euro/GiB <-> 0,4 Euro/GiB.

And then i need to spend much more time in setting all up. I was amazed
to see how simple it is to setup a software RAID system on Linux (with
a modern Distribution that has a GUI for it). For me it was educating
to do this on Solaris, but i now run out of time. I don't want to be
educated on each implementation detail. I want it to work and see a 5
point checklist what to do when trouble starts.

Hardware support for USB cards is terrible bad. Gigabit Ethernet cards
are much more expensive, Grafik Cards the same (insane prices for stuff
that i get for 20 bucks from EBay).

I agree that Linux has problems but i now think in SOHO it is much
better then anything SUN can offer. I'm sure a professional consultant
can solve all the problems i had in a few minutes - but i'm not that
and i don't see a reason to spend money for it because my needs are
very simple and can easily solved with linux. But i learned that SUN
has good hardware for large businesses. I have no interest to turn my
company into a large one, so i guess i will never be a good SUN
Microsystems customer.

Sad, i had much fun with the SUN unix boxes in university ten years
ago.

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