On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:00 PM:
[...]
> Logging in to a Solaris system
> feels archaic when compared to Linux or other
[...]
One of the things that I really think our business could learn from is
how sparse a basic installation of Solaris is. Yes, there's lots of
arguments about different flavors of Linux, etc. but the thing that I
run into the most is the horrible cross connection of things in places
that make no real sense. The installation of a simple library can
result in a dozen or so other things being added to the pile. Things
that really make little sense.
I don't have a specific example at the moment and I have to qualifiy
it with statements like "Using {RedHat|CentOS|SciLinux} & Yum". The
thing that bit me the most recently was that to install a simple thing
(non-gui based tool) resulted in a half dozen X11 packages being
incorporated into the pile.
I know that sometimes this is needed, no argument but I think that the
Solaris crowd had a better .... no, wrong word.... a more innate and
fundamental understanding of the need for minimizing the places for
security mistakes.
If you create a system to be a stand-alone webserver on the fringe of
your company network, you don't want to install lots of things such as
compiler tools and/or GUI pieces and libraries. Solaris always seemed
to do this better.
Yea, they had a lot to learn too......
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<< MCT >> Michael C Tiernan.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mtiernan
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