Julian Yap wrote:
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 22:19 -1000, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
A friend of mind sent me this news about a free Niagara server (in
Japanese) and asked if anyone has (or knows anyone who has) any experience:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathanja?entry=free_server_v2_0_honest
Wayne,
I'm not sure if you know this already but Jonathan Schwartz is the
current CEO (or CTO/CIO/COO whatever) of Sun Microsystems. The link you
sent looks like they hire translators and is on a post time delay.
His official English blog is: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan
English entry of post:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan?entry=niagara_benchmarks
I've been following his blog for a while. Mostly because it comes from
the viewpoint of a Sun executive. And on occasion he has something to
interesting to say.
But yes. The offer sounds legitimate. But no, I don't know anyone who
has had any experience. There are however online testimonials and they
encourage that because "if you write a blog that fairly assesses the
machine's performance (positively or negatively), send us a pointer,
we're likely to let you keep the machine."
You mentioned you were going to be at the Open Source Pizza last Tuesday
but you weren't there so I didn't talk to you about what you had in mind
for your OpenSuSE/OpenSolaris/OpenOffice study group.
Maybe you can elaborate more on list in regards to OpenSolaris on list
to see if others are interested?
Having administered previously Solaris/AIX/HPUX/Digital/QNX Unixes (&
Linux), I'm not really sure I understand going forward what the
advantages are for OpenSolaris vs. Linux.
If they are purely technical/engineering reasons, I believe the
developer momentum behind Linux outweighs that.
- Julian
Looks like our posts crossed each other (again). But to briefly answer
your questions:
1. I had been looking forward to Ron Fox's talk (on anything), but Oahu
drivers don't know how to drive when it rains. By the time I was able
to see Waialae Ave. (from Kalanianaole Highway), it was already past 7
PM. I really felt bad that I missed Ron's talk due to bad traffic.
2. I am glad to know that you may be interested in the
OpenSuSE/OpenSolaris/OpenOffice study group. Many in this forum have
labeled me as a Fedora-zealot since its inception. However, for reasons
that are too complicated (and sensitive, as with a flamebait) to discuss
here, I decided to focus my attention on SuSE. Last week, we had our
first meeting at California Pizza Kitchen in Kahala Mall. In the past
couple months, we have tested most of the major distros including
Fedora, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Kanotix, Vector, Debian, Mepis, Mandrive,
Gentoo, SLACK, Berry Linux, Puppy, DSM, Xandros, NexantOS, Belenix,
etc. This is not an easy task but we learned a lot during the process.
SuSE is definitely not for newbees, but do we really expect an ordinary
Joe or Jane to install Linux, or even Windows?
3. On Linux vs. OpenSolaris, again, this is an unavoidably potentially
flamebait-throwing issue. But aside from technological debates, most of
my target audiences (hardware makers--I am talking about those with
sales in the $B level) have been told about the "Linux market" for many
years (but nothing happens). I know we won't like it, but from my own
experience, this issue has unfortunately become very stale (no one is
interested in hearing it). OpenSolaris, OTOH, represents a fresh start,
if some of the installation issues can be properly handled.
Wayne
