Re: SUSE or Red Hat

isn't free gives you no support from sun?

On 10/31/05, Ray Stell <stellr_at_cns.vt.edu> wrote:
>
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> Sun has made solaris free and open source. This could make it popular.
> That is what sun is hoping, anyway. If oracle would support it better
> that would help from my pov. Free is alot cheaper than either of the
> supported linux threads.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:33:45PM +0200, Maimon Oded wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Redhat is the most popular distro. suse is most popular in Europe.
> > Oracle will support the most popular distros in the market, i find it
> hard
> > to
> > believe that suse will lose there market share so much that they will
> stop
> > be one of the most popular distros. so oracle will support it.
> > that what i think.
> > Oded.
> >
> > On 10/31/05, Ray Stell <stellr_at_cns.vt.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > Sadly, oracle support of Solaris has really faded, which is really
> > > irritating given how 10 is looking. Have you looked at dtrace?
> > > It's the tool you have been looking for all your computing life.
> > > The key-word below is "concisely." When I saw it in action I was in
> awe.
> > > Come to think of it, dtrace might be the reason oracle doesn't support
> > > solaris as well; little the OS or an app does is behind the scenes
> with
> > > dtrace in your tool belt.
> > >
> > > http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/dtrace/
> > > "DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework for the Solaris
> > > Operating Environment. DTrace provides a powerful infrastructure to
> > > permit administrators, developers, and service personnel to concisely
> > > answer arbitrary questions about the behavior of the operating system
> > > and user programs."
> > >
> > > I wonder if M$ has a dtrace-like tool for users ;)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:26:11AM -0700, Mark Moynahan wrote:
> > > > If you're going to be migrating to a *nix environment you may want
> to
> > > > broaden your OS choice to include Solaris 10. If Solaris is not an
> > > > option then RH.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Mark Moynahan
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> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> Beckstrom
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> > > > Subject: SUSE or Red Hat
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > We are looking at migrating to Linux from Windows and was wondering
> > > > which version of Linux is the most popular/preferred.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Jeffrey Beckstrom
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