31 Oct
2010
31 Oct
'10
1:06 p.m.
On 10/31/10 1:24 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
We have a production system still running Solaris 2.6 at work. I was
thinking along the lines of the older the OS, the less cruft, and the
better on the older hardware.
Certainly a good point. I'd not draw that line at the Ultra60,
though, because (as you know) they can be reasonably zippy if
well-provisioned. Ultra30s, Ultra1s, the previous 32-bit SPARCs,
definitely. (NetBSD hauls ass on those!)
One comment, the older the OS the better, and OpenBSD
is an option.
...unless you want to use it for real work of course. (referencing
"older", not OpenBSD) For the past few years I've typically run
Solaris 8 at home, though I have Solaris 10 on the SunBlade 1000.
Myself, at this point I can't imagine running a network without Zones
and ZFS. They've both pretty dramatically changed the way I build
networks. Solaris 10 all the way, for me!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL