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Personally I've migrated from FreeBSD to Ubuntu for my at home server tasks. At work, I've seen a variety of deployments, never one of Solaris. I'd say 30% W

by mey 17y ago

Personally I've migrated from FreeBSD to Ubuntu for my at home server tasks. At work, I've seen a variety of deployments, never one of Solaris. I'd say 30% Windows, 60% Linux, 10% FreeBSD (instance installs (host and vm's), not including embedded systems like routers) is what I've seen over the past 5 years are work. Of Linux I've seen SUSE, RHEL, and Ubuntu widely used. I've seen deliveries of Sun Servers with Solaris installed that were wiped to be replaced with Linux. On the Windows side, I've seen environments where it's Windows Server heavy require drastically more resources to maintain, but that's another conversation. Of course this is all anecdotal as I've also never seen anyone deploy OSX Server in any capacity :) What I really think it is, is people use what they are familiar with or what they can get support for. Solaris has disappeared mostly from the desktop, so people are less familiar. Hell the last time I tried to experiment with OpenSolaris I couldn't get it booted in VMware (graphical corruption), so I never had a chance to get familar with it myself. To bad too, DTrace and ZFS always sounded fantastic.

nolochemical 17y ago
Why didn't you try VirtualBox, its made by Sun.. Yes, ZFS excedes expectations for server setups. Tapes ( still use them for archiving+reports), HDDs ( mid level to 'slowflow' data), SSDs for www/xml-rpc) Sun is one the best at shuffling data handsdown; yet they always play with licensing like a mean poker player..
mbreese 17y ago
I've also never seen anyone deploy OSX Server in any capacity I've done it, but it wasn't very pretty. Well, I mean the admin tools are a pretty GUI, but underneath it is all a BSD, but instead of being able to upgrade components, you're tied to a vendor that doesn't really update things that way. For example, I had 2 G5 Xserves running 10.3 (Panther) and one Intel Xserve running 10.4 (Tiger). Unfortunately upgrading the version of Python or MySQL on the systems was a royal pain in the ass. Custom configurations is also odd, because they do a lot of custom stuff to the point that it isn't quite a *nix. But if you run off the shelf things designed for a Mac Server or need to use one of the Core Media frameworks they would be good. However, for typical web stuff, they really aren't that good of a server. Great hardware though... I'd love to rip out the Mac OS and put Linux of them. To put this back into context for the post, OSX Server is probably deployed less often than Solaris.

by mey 17y ago

nolochemical 17y ago

Why didn't you try VirtualBox, its made by Sun.. Yes, ZFS excedes expectations for server setups. Tapes ( still use them for archiving+reports), HDDs ( mid level to 'slowflow' data), SSDs for www/xml-rpc) Sun is one the best at shuffling data handsdown; yet they always play with licensing like a mean poker player..

mbreese 17y ago

I've also never seen anyone deploy OSX Server in any capacity I've done it, but it wasn't very pretty. Well, I mean the admin tools are a pretty GUI, but underneath it is all a BSD, but instead of being able to upgrade components, you're tied to a vendor that doesn't really update things that way. For example, I had 2 G5 Xserves running 10.3 (Panther) and one Intel Xserve running 10.4 (Tiger). Unfortunately upgrading the version of Python or MySQL on the systems was a royal pain in the ass. Custom configurations is also odd, because they do a lot of custom stuff to the point that it isn't quite a *nix. But if you run off the shelf things designed for a Mac Server or need to use one of the Core Media frameworks they would be good. However, for typical web stuff, they really aren't that good of a server. Great hardware though... I'd love to rip out the Mac OS and put Linux of them. To put this back into context for the post, OSX Server is probably deployed less often than Solaris.