[GRLUG] A Moment of Silence

[Dave Brondsema]

On 09/08/2011 01:57 PM, Bob Kline wrote:
> I had Sun machines at work when
> they were still called "workstations."
> 
> Solaris was indeed a wonderful OS.
> Too bad Sun didn't make it open source
> before Oracle got hold of it....
> 

I thought they did, OpenSolaris.  It doesn't look like it's active any
more, but there are some forks.

> How much of the reliability would you
> attribute to Sun's hardware?  Pretty 
> clearly an OS can't totally shine running
> on junk iron.  
> 
>     -- Bob
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Philip J. Robar <philip.robar at gmail.com
> <mailto:philip.robar at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     On Sep 7, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Ben Rousch wrote:
> 
>     > I would like to ask for a moment of silence. I just decommissioned my
>     > company's main Samba virtual machine which had been running Ubuntu
>     > 6.06 LTS since 2006.
> 
>     At Sun we regularly heard about machines that had been running for
>     years. Solaris is so reliable that smaller customers have forgotten
>     where their servers are. One story, perhaps apocryphal, told of a
>     small server that got walled up when a room was rearanged and had to
>     be found by breaking through the wall board. A field support person
>     once found a machine in a closet that was so clogged with dust that
>     the fans were no longer spinning, but it still running happily.
> 
>     I wouldn’t be surprised if AIX or HP/UX were similarly as reliable,
>     but I’m pretty sure that SGI’s IRIX couldn’t make similar claims:
> 
>     A friend of mine (also an ex-Sun person) early on in his new job as
>     VP of Eng. at an Internet Bubble Startup* asked the founder, “I’ve
>     noticed that the SGI servers panic rather regularly. Has anyone
>     looked into this or called SGI?”
> 
>     Founder, “No need to worry, they just do that. And they were free."
> 
>     My friend’s head then exploded.
> 
> 
>     Phil
> 
>     *Bigfoot for those of you with long memories.
> 
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