Re: Why I hate this so called OS

From: slightly (kas1nac_at_-G0-AWAY-SPAM-hotmail.com)
Date: 05/08/03 

Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 15:05:10 +0100

Angela Spiro <angela_spiro@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ae8bfa7d.0304270446.148d3b77@posting.google.com...
> As a manager without FT Unix staff I need to install a few Sun boxes
> myself each year. Here is my top list of issues:
>
> 1. Each time I trust Solaris to do autoinstall, I wind up with a root
> slice that is like 95% full. After pathces it becomes 100% full.
> 2. Unix guys tell me that keeping root small and Read-only is OK, but
> WHY do patches and packages like Solaris 8 Admin Pack always try to
> install themselves in root. What am I missing here?
> 3. So this time I decided to be cute and figured I could install
> DiskSuite and extend the root slice. Sorry! Documentation says you
> can't extend root! (So what do you gurus do in a case like this?)
> 4. Let's see, I need to change resolution in CDE, since none of my
> monitors in computer room ever work with default Solaris settings. Go
> to prompt. OK, what is the %$%$# command now....m64config..???
> k64config??. Oh yeah, I have to look in /dev/... and go through twenty
> man pages to figure this *** out. Simple.
> 5. Need to whack a directory. Man pages say rmdir or rm * -R should
> work. Not for me I guess.
> 6. Got a new disk. Run format. Want to name a slice oracle. Forced to
> name it root, usr, swap, etc.... Why?????????

Angela. I have been using *nix for years and the conclusion I have come to
is they are each very good at one thing. The best all rounder I think is
freeBSD
but very few organisations will have manager's gutsy/suicidal to back it.
Heres what I think databases go on solaris. Its scalable stays up and has
all tried and
trusted failover/redundancy 3rd_party products.
Linux redhat/debian for home grown applications. Its cheap as a development
and test platform
and has miles of third party products and it is easy to migrate people two
from windows or *nix.
Windows use to run GUI based interfaces where the user learning investment
is going to be minimal
e.g. call centres/CSR's/Customers.

As far as vax/SCO/DOS/plan 9/as400 etc... goes they each have great
qualities but none sufficent to
sustain any business decision I have ever made.

Now this may be thought a bit off topic but I just wanted to state why its I
think its best to use.

Regards from a "hygeneically challenged" unix troll