From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Nigel Roles" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: RE: [9fans] alright, this should be interesting Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:16:06 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <002901c4b6d4$37b160b0$2e4cdfd5@SOMA> Topicbox-Message-UUID: f1f8e856-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 9fans-bounces+ngr=9fs.org@cse.psu.edu wrote: >> You can perhaps argue that there are alternatives to Linux >> which might have lessened the amount of work they >> needed to do to reach system administration nirvana, but >> from what Rob says they have it solved pretty well. > > you can do it with lunix, but it's bloody hard work to get > it to the point where administering large N is hands off. Well, it can't be hands off, as with the number of machines they own, there must be a disk drive failure about every 3 seconds.