Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 09:06:17 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Skewed SA Mag article (was RE: Some ona knows about this?, opinions please! SAMA article.) Message-ID: <15143.29529.264499.535131@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <002c01c0f3fa$bae33580$0e00000a@tomcat> References: <15143.5681.124368.758033@guru.mired.org> <002c01c0f3fa$bae33580$0e00000a@tomcat>
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Andrew C. Hornback <hornback@wireco.net> types: > > Andrew C. Hornback <hornback@wireco.net> types: > > > One last thing... who in their right mind is going to run that many > > > different OSes in a production environment? > > Anyone trying to develop multi-platform software. Standard practice > > where I've been is that the developers of the version for platform X > > ran platform X. The only place I've ever been that kept track of such > > things counted something like 100 different platforms. > Mike, I realize that... developing for a lot of platforms requires running > those various platforms. But, this is infrastructure that we're talking > about, not developer's desktops. Same thing. Or maybe it's multiple infrastructures. A developer group will have a collection of desktop boxes and a server or two for any shared services that aren't coming from outside the workgroup. I think the places that I've been didn't have four or five different platforms in the infrastructure were the ones that didn't have four or five *boxes* in the infrastructure - and DEC, where buying hardware from anyone but DEC required permission from the other side of the country. > > > Two versions of Solaris, > > > Windows 2000 and NT, RedHat (which can be an administration > > nightmare in and > > > of itself alone), and OpenBSD. Six different platforms... talk about > > > insanity. > > I run almost that many on a single box. No big deal. > And here we go with my theory of trying to keep as few OSes on a machine as > possible. *grins* Well, that box is a test box. It's sole purpose in life is to boot operating systems for testing. In theory, there are five OS's on it now, but I'm pretty sure Solaris x86 is kaput because Linux decided to use the Solaris partition as swap. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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