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On Wednesday 03 March 2010 00:26:35 Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes: |
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> > On Monday 01 March 2010 06:16:09 Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> >> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes: |
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> >> > FWIW, Solaris syslogd is like other basic tools on Solaris: |
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> >> > standards compliant in that it caters for the lowest common |
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> >> > denominator that comprises Unix. Which is to say, almost always |
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> >> > useless for real work. |
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> >> A little turn towards OT: |
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> >> so what are using your opensolaris machines for? |
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> >> The advantages of zfs? |
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> > I had Solaris, not OpenSolaris. I've been steadily reducing my |
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> > Solaris machines (mostly because of the horrendous cost) and not |
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> > many are left. Other teams here still have quite a few, mostly for |
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> > proprietary ISP monitoring stuff, Oracle, VoIP billing systems - |
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> > that kind of thing. |
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> No interest in opensolaris then? The `ZFS' file system alone makes it |
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> worth looking at... its a working system very similar to what linux |
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> community is trying with btrfs |
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Sadly, using opensolaris would require a massive change in how we do things, |
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and it's just not worth it for us. |
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ZFS is great, but it's not something we'd use. Rather, it's not something we |
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have a pressing need for and the problems it solves are not problems we have. |
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> I guess you know that Oracle bought Sun. Some on the opensolaris |
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> lists have been pretty concerned about the fate of opensolaris. |
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> In the last few days some Oracle heavies have put it on line that |
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> Oracle plans to put more devel money into Opensolaris than Sun had |
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> been so many in that community are relieved. |
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> If you're interested, look for: |
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> Subject: Oracle Says OpenSolaris Will Stay Open Source |
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> On news.gmane.org under: |
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> gmane.os.solaris.opensolaris.general |
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> The only url have to hand is below but there were several others |
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> cited a fair bit more info in thead as well: |
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> http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3867776/Oracle+Says+OpenS |
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> olaris+Will+Stay+Open+Source.htm |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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