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A Sun engineer on Linux

A Sun engineer on Linux

Posted Sep 23, 2004 17:30 UTC (Thu) by jeskritt (guest, #4092)
In reply to: A Sun engineer on Linux by philips
Parent article: A Sun engineer on Linux

I'm currently a Solaris admin. Personally I prefer linux to Solaris. Not that Solaris is bad, but their command line tools don't have all the same features as linux (e.g. -h for human readable file sizes was only added in Solaris 9), though they are slowly adding functionality to them. The main complaints I have about Solarisis that I don't really like their packaging system and I really hate their patch system. It is horrible.


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A Sun engineer on Linux

Posted Sep 23, 2004 23:31 UTC (Thu) by hppnq (subscriber, #14462) [Link]

Heh, I just spent 6 hours installing patches (not counting downloading the +100MB) in order to install an LDAP client -- on a fairly well maintained Solaris system.

There is no way to script this, and I have 800 (eight hundred) systems to go.

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