TJIC wrote
About 90% the former, 10% the latter, 15% a dislike having to learn something new, 20% an intense dislike of ripping a perfectly fine, working, system up to replace it with something else.
Thinking it over it is (was) not so much 'Solaris' that I like but the combination of Solaris + hardware + support. One of their SEs once, in a completely above-and-beyond action, stayed on the phone with me during a tricky 3:00 a.m. call when I was a total zombie and needed such basic instructions like 'no, don't retype that entire line, yy-p and edit.' Sun support was the thing, man.
Linux Plus: things [1] just work without having to mentally translate 'linux-ism to 'solaris-ism'.
Linux Plus: the cool toys do work the way docs expect them to.
Linux Minus: the temptation to go wild and just install stuff is .. tempting. This might be a personal problem.
Startling: a how-to written 18 months ago is referred to without irony as ancient. In Solaris-land this same document would be venerable.
Previously.
[1] Things. Nagios, Puppet. gcc. Stuff like that.
I'd be curious as to how much of your distaste is just "I like Pepsi, but this is Coke" and how much is "feature X is just objectively bad".
About 90% the former, 10% the latter, 15% a dislike having to learn something new, 20% an intense dislike of ripping a perfectly fine, working, system up to replace it with something else.
Thinking it over it is (was) not so much 'Solaris' that I like but the combination of Solaris + hardware + support. One of their SEs once, in a completely above-and-beyond action, stayed on the phone with me during a tricky 3:00 a.m. call when I was a total zombie and needed such basic instructions like 'no, don't retype that entire line, yy-p and edit.' Sun support was the thing, man.
Linux Plus: things [1] just work without having to mentally translate 'linux-ism to 'solaris-ism'.
Linux Plus: the cool toys do work the way docs expect them to.
Linux Minus: the temptation to go wild and just install stuff is .. tempting. This might be a personal problem.
Startling: a how-to written 18 months ago is referred to without irony as ancient. In Solaris-land this same document would be venerable.
Previously.
[1] Things. Nagios, Puppet. gcc. Stuff like that.
