From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:58:51 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX of choice these days? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8e10f554-8d6e-964c-8ac6-df77002788d0@kilonet.net> A note on the PC hardware front: Solaris 11+ has been doing very well for me on PC-based platforms for quite a few years now. The drivers handle everything up to probably the lastest-gen( minus 1) LSI or Emulex or any other disk/fiber controllers, 10Gbe Intel or Mellanox ethernet cards, and generally support enough USB stuff to make it worthwhile for me - USB serial port adapters actually DO wind up in /dev/cua ;) The Intel processor support has been great w/NUMA aware scheduler (check out lgrpinfo on a Solaris box) which is very useful for Oracle DB, and a few other things I can't think of right now. I don't use it for desktop though, except for Xvnc with a bunch of xterms open so I don't lose my mind when my Windows workstation gets more perpetual updates and I have to reboot it. Xvnc also helps to deal with the inevitable Oracle GUI-based installations. On 9/20/2017 5:15 AM, Steve Nickolas wrote: > > Not that I wouldn't like to be running some sort of "Real Unix®™©, > keeping in mind that they're not usually a good fit for commodity PC > hardware (even Solaris never really was, I don't think). > One thing I left out of my original post on this thread was that when I say "Unix" - I include Linux in that. It's not, technically, and being the anti-Linux snob that I am, I wouldn't include it in the term "Unix". However, I left that up to the individual as to whether or not they want to call Linux "Unix" ;)