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From: henry.r.bent@gmail.com (Henry Bent)
Subject: [TUHS] UNIX of choice these days?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 13:53:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdTPBdLbyZWM+VR5afBeoPYx1b08v=seOgu0qUy-Aks2dHsoA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8e10f554-8d6e-964c-8ac6-df77002788d0@kilonet.net>

On 20 September 2017 at 12:58, Arthur Krewat <krewat at kilonet.net> wrote:

> 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.
>

How do you feel about the fact that Solaris is essentially EOL now?  I'm
sure it will be reasonable to run for another year or two, but where will
you go after that?

-Henry
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Thread overview: 154+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-20  0:12 Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20  0:26 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-20  0:39 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-20  1:03   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-09-20 20:56     ` jason-tuhs
2017-09-23  9:17   ` Dario Niedermann
2017-09-23  9:36     ` Steve Mynott
2017-09-23 10:03       ` Dario Niedermann
2017-09-23 23:04         ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-24  0:11           ` Random832
2017-09-24  1:19             ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-24 13:46       ` Andy Kosela
2017-09-24 14:02         ` ron minnich
2017-09-24 14:06           ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-24 20:36             ` Kurt H Maier
2017-09-24 21:38               ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-24 23:36                 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-24 23:50                   ` Steve Nickolas
2017-09-25  0:03                     ` Wesley Parish
2017-09-25 15:36                       ` Tony Finch
2017-09-26  0:42                         ` Wesley Parish
2017-09-26  9:54                           ` Tony Finch
2017-09-26 14:41                           ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-26 17:34                             ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-26 17:39                               ` Warner Losh
2017-09-26 18:26                                 ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-26 17:43                               ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-26 19:44                                 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-26 23:22                             ` Wesley Parish
2017-09-25  0:51                     ` Charles Anthony
2017-09-25  0:36                   ` Dan Cross
2017-09-25  0:44                     ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-25  0:56                   ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-25 15:45                     ` Tony Finch
2017-09-25 16:14                       ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-25  7:41                   ` Andy Kosela
2017-09-25  7:43                     ` Cory Smelosky
2017-09-25 10:14                       ` Andy Kosela
2017-09-25  9:58                     ` Steve Nickolas
2017-09-25 11:14                       ` Derek Fawcus
2017-09-25 11:48                       ` Andrew Warkentin
2017-09-24 15:26           ` Christian Barthel
2017-09-24 17:33             ` Clem Cole
2017-09-24 17:33           ` Clem Cole
2017-09-24 17:51             ` [TUHS] RFS was: " Arthur Krewat
2017-09-24 19:54               ` Clem Cole
2017-09-24 21:59                 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-24 22:08                 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-24 23:52                   ` Clem Cole
2017-09-27  8:44                 ` arnold
2017-09-27 15:25                   ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-27 15:49                     ` arnold
2017-09-27 17:38                   ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2017-09-27 23:01                   ` Kevin Bowling
2017-09-27 23:11                     ` Clem Cole
2017-09-27 23:13                       ` Kevin Bowling
2017-09-28  0:39                         ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-28  3:19                           ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-09-28 13:45                             ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-28 17:12                               ` Steve Johnson
2017-09-28 17:58                                 ` [TUHS] Bill Joy was: Re: RFS Forrest, Jon
2017-09-28  0:54                         ` [TUHS] RFS was: Re: UNIX of choice these days? Dave Horsfall
2017-09-28  0:59                           ` William Pechter
2017-09-28 13:49                         ` arnold
2017-09-28 14:07                           ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-28 14:28                             ` arnold
2017-09-28 19:49                               ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-28 20:00                             ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-28 14:27                           ` Clem Cole
2017-09-28 22:08                             ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-28 22:20                               ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-29  2:23                                 ` Kevin Bowling
2017-09-29  8:59                                 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2017-09-29 14:20                                   ` Clem Cole
2017-09-29 16:46                                   ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-29 17:02                                     ` Kurt H Maier
2017-09-29 17:27                                       ` Pete Wright
2017-09-29 18:11                                       ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-29 18:47                                     ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2017-09-29 15:22                                 ` George Ross
2017-09-29 18:40                                   ` Don Hopkins
2017-09-29 19:03                                     ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-29 21:24                                     ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-29 22:11                                       ` Don Hopkins
2017-09-29 22:21                                         ` Don Hopkins
2017-09-29 19:19                                 ` Dan Cross
2017-09-29 19:22                                   ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-29 20:52                                   ` Jon Forrest
2017-09-23 23:00     ` [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2017-09-26 22:00     ` Christian Groessler
2017-09-20  4:42 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20  8:31   ` Mutiny 
2017-09-20  9:15 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-09-20 16:58   ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20 17:05     ` Steve Nickolas
2017-09-20 17:53     ` Henry Bent [this message]
2017-09-20 18:12       ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20 18:33         ` Brad Spencer
2017-09-20 19:20           ` Henry Bent
2017-09-20 19:37           ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20 19:58             ` Jacob Ritorto
2017-09-20 22:29               ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-20 22:31                 ` Warner Losh
2017-09-20 12:52 ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-20 13:33 ` Nemo
2017-09-20 15:39 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-20 15:42 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-20 16:58   ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-20 17:09     ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-20 17:31     ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20 22:40 ` Steve Simon
2017-09-20 22:51   ` Erik Berls
2017-09-20 23:37 ` Robert Brockway
2017-09-21  1:47 ` Derrik Walker v2.0
2017-09-21  3:54 ` Gregg Levine
2017-09-21 14:33 ` Nicholas Chappell
2017-09-21 16:38   ` Mutiny 
2017-09-21 16:42     ` gilbertmm
2017-09-21 18:30     ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21 23:34     ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-25 10:36 ` Thomas Kellar
2017-09-21  2:28 Rudi Blom
2017-09-23 23:39 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2017-09-25 12:07 Norman Wilson
2017-09-25 14:16 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-25 15:13   ` Warner Losh
2017-09-25 16:51     ` Warner Losh
2017-09-26  0:56       ` ron minnich
2017-09-25 15:18   ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-25 15:30     ` Warner Losh
2017-09-25 23:49     ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-26  2:06       ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-26 14:53         ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-26 15:17           ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-26 21:23           ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-26 21:43             ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-26 21:45             ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-27  0:58               ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-27  1:37                 ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-27  2:02                   ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-27 13:50                     ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-27 14:17                       ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-28  8:10                         ` Derek Fawcus
2017-09-28 12:34                           ` Chet Ramey
     [not found]                             ` <20170928174420.GA41732@accordion.employees.org>
2017-09-28 17:57                               ` Derek Fawcus
2017-09-28 18:04                                 ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-27  3:42                   ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-27 14:35                     ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-25 12:46 [TUHS] Unix " Doug McIlroy
2017-09-25 13:57 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-30 15:17 [TUHS] UNIX " Norman Wilson
2017-09-30 20:29 ` Kevin Bowling
2017-09-30 21:56   ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-30 22:37     ` Kevin Bowling

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