19 Jan
2010
19 Jan
'10
4:43 p.m.
On Tuesday 19 January 2010, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Why do I continue to deploy AIX over Linux? Because Linux is a mess.
And the reason I continue to use Linux (Debian to be specific, I have
issues with RHEL and SuSE, and would easily agree that they're "a mess"
and poorly laid out), is that "I have the source", and I understand how
it's laid out.
Yes, I've found kernel bugs and even fixed one myself (though Dave
Miller reworked / rewrote my patch). I've done the same with user-land
stuff as well.
Pat
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Mind you,
I have IBM RS/6000 and pSeries hardware, and even have
AIX installed on some of it, but I don't see why anyone would
deploy a new server running AIX when they don't have existing
applications for AIX to run on it.
That's a fair criticism, but an unfortunate one.