Hello, <serious-flame>
I very seldom complain publicly about vendors such as Sun Microsystems, so this is a bit unusual. Just to note, in 1983, Sun was the first Unix system that I had ever used, and I continuously used it until about 1998, when I switched to Linux. Their OS was quite stable and worked with a lot of high end equipment. I enjoyed working with it, but found that Linux OS was very nice and worked with much cheaper and more available hardware (the reason for my switch to Linux). Recently I tried loading OpenSolaris in a VM, and I discovered that they somehow have remained frozen in time in 1998 and had not significantly improved their user interface -- a big disappointment for me. I ended up with a default system that had a Java user interface and a /home/kern that was read-only (can you imagine that by default your home directory is read-only?). I finally gave up. I would have been happy to leave things there, but Sun has not stopped making my life difficult. First they bought MySQL, which is heavily used by Bacula users. Their latest source prerelease for Solaris, which two of our regression testers were using was simply broken and did not work. Great, Sun buys MySQL and breaks it! I can understand why the MySQL developers are leaving and MariaDB was created -- what a pity. For the last several users I have been using VirtualBox. It has worked perfectly. Recently, my RHEL 64 when applying upgrades upgraded from RHEL 5.3 to 5.4, then shortly later, the VM hard disk image destroyed itself. The first time in 2 or 3 years that I had any problem. OK, that kind of thing can happen. So, I upgraded from VirtualBox version 2.2 to version 3.1 on my Xeon machine. In doing so, the new Virtual box has destroyed *all* the VM images that I had (8-10). I don't know if you have ever setup and configured a VM, but it is not a trivial amount of work. As far as I am concerned Sun OpenSource software venture stinks. I think with all the noise about Oracle buying them, and their blunders in implementation of OpenSolaris, MySQL, and VirtualBox, they have little chance of surviving in the Open Source software market. Perhaps their high-end hardware offerings will fare better. </serious-flame> Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
