> 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).
You might think that Linux shines in that area. Obviously you've never dealt with platform provisioning and engineering in any structured matter to know what's all involved. Had you ever designed and built a JumpStart infrastructure that automatically installs and configures thousands of systems in parallel, you would be painfully aware of how sorely Linux is lacking in this area. And patches? Why, Linux software subsystems only support "patches" as a quasi-notion afterthought. If you want to "patch" something in Linux, be prepared to have entire software stacks replaced while RPM goes and "patches" the system in one fell swoop. THEN you'll rightly know what a mess looks like, and what it's like when 11,000 PCs bust and break. Like I said, you'd have to be invloved with actually engineering large systems and networks to really appreciate Solaris and to know just how shoddy Linux is in this respect. It's a desktop toy with pretty icons. Just give them another two years. They'll be back on Solaris. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
