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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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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+OpenSolaris+Will+Stay+Open+Source.htm |
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