Linux? That inferior operating system bugged by the NSA and completely disgraced by Lennart Poettering's stupid SystemD?
Tough geeks use BSD!
Tough geeks use BSD!
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Whether you like it or not, Linux is winning the war and "legacy" O/S such as Solaris and AIX will soon be goneOriginally posted by petergriffin View PostComment
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ToytownOS lol!!Originally posted by petergriffin View Post
It's despairingly awful, mishmash of half-finished cobbled-on bits written by god-knows-who and forgotten about.Comment
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Ex-Linux man speaking here.Originally posted by Platypus View Post
The Linux kernel is robust, provided you recompile it and take all the NSA reference out (examples abound).
The Linux userland (in particular freedesktop.org, that provides all the X11 graphics userspace and libraries) has been hijacked by Red hat and they won't compile without SystemD. In other words Red Hat has made of an Open Source platform a proprietary (not in code but in implementation) one. In 5 years Linux will be legacy.
To the IT-illiterate on this board, your beloved Mac OSX uses BSD code in Darwin.<Insert idea here> will never be adopted because the politicians are in the pockets of the banks!Comment
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Concentrate on linux, DevOps stuff, programming, automation puppet etc
Dump all of the Unix stuff. It's a shame as I think that it is better (more stable and better written / documented) but it's dead now.
Think about things like OpenStack.
The OS will be dead / integrated ( 10 years ish ) soon. Pushing buttons for cloudy stuff will be the norm along with lots and lots of coding / integration / sticking things together.
That's my opinion.
Anyway, watch the market. Hand your notice in if contracting or just apply for permy roles.Comment
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not according to some peeps, large part of senior management at an old client of mine were adamant that linux wasn't 'enterprise ready' - and anything serious should be left to aixOriginally posted by Platypus View PostPoliticians are wonderfull people, as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, like working for a living!Comment
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My thoughts exactly, I see once-dying Solaris making inroads over AIX territory now tho, HP-UX is a bit dead still, Linux is what it is, a hack on a big PC.Originally posted by portseven View Post
We have several T-series SPARC boxes in full-partition mode (POWER term) i.e. not doing LDOM's, not partitioned (which x86 cannot do anyway) uptimes on ALL of them is around 1850 days, there's a lot of them, and no trouble. PRAM batteries are dead but boxes still going...Comment
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The large bank I worked for was strategically moving to Linux, and the large co I work for now uses Linux, Centos distribution. The main weakness of any of these high availibility systems is the application code not the OS. I've seen plenty of problems, but not one due to Linux, mainly the problems are caused by thoughtless maintenance on the network or hardware failure.Last edited by BlasterBates; 29 November 2014, 10:59.I'm alright JackComment
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same client has a lot of solaris too in the investment banking side, still fighting its corner (and growing) and resisting linux, again because its not 'enterprise ready'Originally posted by stek View PostPoliticians are wonderfull people, as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, like working for a living!Comment
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Thanks, I think I should be fine then. I have a great passion for IT, DevOps, Linux and it's IT contracting is not about the money for me.
I don't mind accepting a lesser salary to work on a very cool project. My current job is so extremely mind-numbing boring.Comment
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