Solaris pains

Solaris pains

Posted May 18, 2006 2:18 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: GPL concerns halt Kororaa live CD (NewsForge) by einstein
Parent article: GPL concerns halt Kororaa live CD (NewsForge)

I can only concur. Solaris was a pain in the neck to keep up to date, and sucked baby elephants through straws in performance (first step with a new Sun was what somebody called GNU > /usr/local, and then replace X with a self-compiled package from X.org). Plus the joy of seeing your perfectly working (if somewhat slow) machine discontinued for further OS updates... and that could very well be one of your central servers.

And some november day, a round of security updates reinstalled a "remote administration tool" with widely known vulnerabilities, and promptly some 31337 (sp?) dude proceeded to administer our machines remotely. Solaris lasted a fortnight on them after that...

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