[lug] More Server Problems

[Nate Duehr]

David L. Anselmi wrote:

>> Sun's OS keeps moving forward, and is a hell of a lot more stable than 
>> the equivalent Linux packages doing the same types of disk 
>> virtualization, etc... but no one's looking.
> 
> But it's not Free[1].

Not Free as in Freedom, but Free as in Beer... just doing the economics 
of it (and ignoring the social aspects, which one should never fully 
do... GRIN...), the 3-4 year old Sun box is a pretty good deal right now.

>  1. Admittedly being able to make Freedom a top criteria when choosing 
> software (and not needing all Sun's gizmos for anything) is a luxury. So 
> I admit, I'm really spoiled.

I think a lot of us are.  ;-)

I certainly use Debian and Fedora Core on everything I have running on 
the Net right now... but the siren call of a $250 Sun box that cost $50k 
new (and has the engineering lineage to prove it) to put in the rack... 
is somewhat alluring right now.

Of course, making sure everything you need to run (if you choose Linux 
to run on it) is important, too... should have mentioned that.  Not 
everything is.

Nate