At 09:32 PM 11/15/2005, Victor Watkins wrote:
> Do community member find these additional features worth the cost?
No.
We just want to get our patches without jumping through any hoops, or
worrying about if the check made it through the mail, or if Sun FUBAR'ed
our support account info rather than there being a problem with the
Update Manager connecting, etc.
No longer personally worried about it though..I nuked my Solaris install
and have a nice, shiny new FreeBSD 6.0 kit now, and I gotta say, after
Solaris 5.10 x86, the speed difference alone is breathtaking.
Ironically, I too did the same exact thing. Sun screwed me around
with "whats free..whats not free" - patches available...patches restricted.
Then when Update manager stopped working - I said enough was enough.
I nuked my solaris 10 install - and opted for FreeBSD. Not only is it
much faster and easier to work with, but I can feel more assured that
if/when a patch is needed, I wont be dick'ed around to get it.
Solaris x86 has never offered stellar performance, but when 10 came
out we all had high hopes. That faded fast. I have 2 MAJOR bugs filed
that still have not been addressed (reported March 2005) - and there
are many users out there that dont even know about some of these.
They likely will find out someday :-(
I still run 1 solaris machine and thats a sparc running 9.0 ...as
soon as the machine dies or the OS is no longer supported, the
machine will find a nice resting spot in some city dump (or recycler)
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