On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, UNIX admin wrote:
I don't think so. Linux on the desktop certainly is
not crap. It certainly has enough features for a
business desktop. And at the moment it is more mature
than Solaris on the desktop. Just try out Ubuntu for
a change.
Whether Linux on the desktop is crap or not is completely irrelevant.
It's a matter of logistics. Linux is a mess and as such is simply not
supportable and maintainable,
because it doesn't scale in terms of management; the overhead of
maintaining the thing becomes too great very, very fast. Supporting
Linux desktops will even be an order of magnitude harder.
Really? How so? I personally think this is the one area where Linux and
some of the commercial Linux distributions shine. I can't wait for Sun to
address patch management in Solaris, and hope they will release a solution
similar to what is provided in Redhat Satellite Server (which works
relatively well).
Thanks,
- Ryan
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UNIX Administrator
http://daemons.net/~matty
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