On 10/04/2017 11:24 PM, Reginald Beardsley pulaskite@...
[hp_agilent_equipment] wrote:
Sun badge number less than 2000? Color me green.
Yeah, me too!
I'll give up Solaris 10 when they pry it out of my cold dead hands. I
keep it off the Internet because it's u8, the last non-So-Larry's
release. I've used over a dozen flavors of Unix (counting the 57
bejillion Linux distros once).
You and me both. My Solaris10 machines are outward-facing; they do
all the heavy lifting here, hosting a few dozen sites and email for
about 130 people. I also manage a few for another company down in FL.
None of these are running U8, though; they're production systems.
Wish I'd kept the old girl now.
The Large Scale Systems Museum is gearing up to open a third exhibit
floor sometime in the first half of next year. It will feature
workgroup servers and workstations, including a couple of Sun 3/60s.
They'll be up and running.
I only run Windows because I got three z400s for $100 each, so I
stick the Win 7 Pro disk that came with my first z400 in one of them
that has interchangeable disks so I can run crappy software. I
tried VMs a few years back and decided life was too short. Same
conclusion I came to after teaching a machine to boot Solaris, Linux
and FreeBSD from a single disk. It took something like a dozen
installs to sort out.
Man. It'd take a lot more than nearly-free hardware to make me fart
around with Windows. You're a more patient man than I. ;) I've still
never run Windows; never had the need, desire, nor level of forgiveness
required. Life is definitely too short.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Dave McGuire