i would like a good dialogue.
1. example 1: sun takes a 10 gig drive, no problem, hp takes 2 gig
2. sun detects a bad block on a 4 gig drive no problem, hp says reformat.
3. sun automounts most third parties, hp says da
what do you know?
by JCarr378 » Mon, 08 Jan 1996 04:00:00
1. example 1: sun takes a 10 gig drive, no problem, hp takes 2 gig
2. sun detects a bad block on a 4 gig drive no problem, hp says reformat.
3. sun automounts most third parties, hp says da
what do you know?
by David W. Bar » Fri, 12 Jan 1996 04:00:00
1. My recent example using fsdb: in HP-UX it works on a modern fast
file system, on Solaris it is a glorified front end to clri
(thankfully, fixed in 2.5).
2. HP-UX's lrom displays on nearly every known X device. It even
displays on dumb ASCII terminals. Answerbook requires DPS. Sun
seems to not understand that most sites have non-Sun displays that
don't do DPS.
3. Sun's OS installer seems to go through a major and total rewrite at
the drop of a hat. (Why even bother to learn it if its going to be
totally different the next time?) HP has kept theirs with a
consistant user interface for years.
Fortunately, Sun seems to be learning (learning slowly, but learning
nonetheless) and the misfeatures in Solaris 2.x are slowly
decreasing. I hope the early reports about 2.5 are true -- I always
liked Suns in the 4.1.x days because their OS was so clearly better
then HP-UX. I'd like that to be the case again. There were (are)
altogether too many things in 2.0 through 2.4 that are mainly there
because men in suits and ties decided Sun had to be more like System V
simply for the sake of being System V-ish.
--
David Barts N5JRN | UW Civil Engineering, Box 352700 | Seattle, WA 98195-2700
2153 GMT T: 54 F wind: SE 4 gust 5 mph P: 1027 mbar
1. Why is SUN falling so far behind IBM?
For about 12,000 USD, you can buy a pSeries that has ChipKill(TM)
technology, dual CPUs that if one fails, the other takes over, a
service manager, and reduncant powersupplies and RAID disks. Best of
all, that server will work seemlessly with my Linux desktops and
applications because it too runs linux.
SUN is going in the complete opposite direction. It is blindly
clinging on to Solaris instead of switching to Linux OR having a Linux
affinity Solaris such as something that could be branded "SolarisLX"
that would work seemlessly with Linux. Make Linux or Linux affinity
Solaris availible for everything from a SUNFIRE to the Ultrasparc.
The last thing that SUN is doing wrong is ruining the SUN brand by
using commodity INTEL chips. Companies used to show their customers
and investors the IT room full of huge SUN boxes to impress them, but
now that the SUN brand has been tarnished it is not as impressive
anymore. Customers now see sun as either a has-been or just another
OEM DELL machine.
SUN was high-end reliable computing that boasted you could write your
app on an Ultra and move it to a SUNFIRE. IBM now has that message
because now you can write your app on Linux and run it on a Mainframe.
Fun too how much money IBM makes from JAVA.
2. Apache 1.3.3 log file rotation leaves open file descriptors
3. Am I pusing Solaris too far? :-)
4. Log entries, what do they mean?
5. I am not impressed with Debian so far.
6. purging files by day of week
8. Design Question--am I going too far with this?
9. Long ago, in a partition far, far away...
10. ISSG down far, far more than BCSG
11. webhosting.com - stay away... far far away