Re:RE: Cluster Software - Opinions

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The latest offering from Apple (MAC OS X) is based on FreeBSD.  Oracle has also offered up a development version of the server for this version as well.  BSD is continuing to be a force after all these years!

Steve

---------- LULANI Olsi <[email protected]> writes:

From: LULANI Olsi <[email protected]>
To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Cluster Software - Opinions 
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:56:21 +0100

I have been looking at FreeBSD and it gives the look of a very solid OS. It
lacks features such as RPM, and also needs a new frame of mind toward
findong and activating scripts, services, etc.

Sincerely
Mr. Olsi Lulani


-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Mastin [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 4:57 PM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: RE: Cluster Software - Opinions 

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>Do you (list members) think that Redhat is somehow getting away from the
>quality software that it produced in the 6.2 times. I am observing that as
>versions move RedHat is going towards some kind of software that works as
>Windows. Overloaded GUI and less stable system that come down without any
>visible reason. The glory still comes from the old 6.2 (now optimised for
>Oracle & etc), but the new versions available to the people change every 6
>months. Furthermore even software support for the free world is ending in
>very short time frames (about 2 years for 6.2, about 1 year for 7.2, and
>about 6 months for 8.0 -- till now).

6.2 had it's issues too, IIRC. I remember the compiler was turned out 
ahead of it's time, and X was a disaster, causing some problems with 
freezing and forced reboots requiring fsck checks. Still a great little OS 
without X though.

They seem to have fixed a lot of those issues with the 7.x releases, 
namely ext3.

I saw 8.0 in action for the first time yesterday. Lots of gui stuff, no 
idea about what they do. A lot of command line tools seemed to be missing 
from the base install, they needed to be dug out from the CD's and 
installed individually. It's so 'drake-like maybe redhat should be renamed 
to redrake or something... :)

They're pushing the server admins to consider other options. I've 
been looking at debian. The longer release cycles just might sway me.

>Sincerely
>Mr. Olsi Lulani

Cheers,
Keith



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