Kern Sibbald wrote: > 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.
What do you mean by "Java user interface"? Opensolaris is currently using Gnome Desktop version 2.28.0 Are you using the automounter to mount /export/home/kern to /home/kern? if autofs is turned on (default) you can't write to /home because thats where the user directories are mounted > > 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. This was due to a compiler bug: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=49091 a simple fix is to use mysql5 instead of the default mysql51 "pkg install SUNWmysql5" > 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 > -- Robert W Hartzell bear at rwhartzell.net RwHartzell.Net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
