[GRLUG] A Moment of Silence

Sat Sep 10 17:44:40 EDT 2011

Most of the OpenSolaris kernel team now works on this https://www.illumos.org/ which is a fork of OpenSolaris.

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On Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 2:18 PM, scott.tanner at comcast.net wrote:

> OpenSolaris is officially dead, too bad as it had some great promise and features (like the SMF).  There's also Nexenta (www.nexenta.com (http://www.nexenta.com)) which fuses the OpenSolaris kernel with debian user-land.  I had a nightmare of a time getting it to run on my computers.
>  
> We have quite a few x86-based Sun fire servers, and they're top-notch in terms of remote management, build quality and ease of maintenance. Far better than Dell and HP ( at least they were a couple of years ago).  I've been dealing with Oracle support for the past 2 weeks on what started as a simple dead fan on an x4240, and its been ridiculous. At one point I had the canned "We don't support CentOS, so we can't help you".  I now loathe Oracle.  
>  
> I ran Sun workstations and servers throughout the late 90's and early 2000's, as well as SGI, HP and IBM ( and a couple of Dec's).  Sun definitely had the cost-advantage, but hardware wise they were all about equal.  Maybe I was just exceptional at finding machines weaknesses?
>  
> Regards,
> Scott
>  
> From: "Dave Brondsema" <dave at brondsema.net (mailto:dave at brondsema.net)>
> To: grlug at grlug.org (mailto:grlug at grlug.org)
> Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2011 11:31:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [GRLUG] A Moment of Silence
>  
> 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)
> > <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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