From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wangude@gmail.com (Thomas Kellar) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 06:36:31 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX of choice these days? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Usually Ubuntu server On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Arthur Krewat wrote: > What's your UNIX of choice to do normal "real" things these days? > > Home file server (NAS), business stuff, develop code, whatever. > > Mine is Solaris 11.3 at this point. Oracle has provided almost all the > "normal" utilities that are used by Linux folk, and it runs on Intel > hardware rather well. My main storage is a raidz2 of 24TB and I get > 1.2GB/sec to a bunch of 3TB 512-byte-sector SAS drives. > > It serves my vmware farm with iSCSI at 10gbe using COMSTAR, which also > houses a bunch of Solaris 11 guests that perform various chores. It also > houses some Linux and Windows guests for prototyping/testing. It's also my > Samba server, servicing a few Windows workstations. > > This is all in my home office where I do all my personal/professional work. > > What do you all use for day-to-day development and general playing around > with new stuff? > > AAK