Which UNIX is Best

Discussion in 'Programming' started by reptile, Aug 10, 2007.

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Available flavours of UNIX are

  1. Sun Solaris

    33.3%
  2. RedHat Linux

    66.7%
  3. Hp-UX

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  4. IBM-AIX

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
Multiple votes are allowed.
  1. #1
    I am planning to buy one for me...
     
    reptile, Aug 10, 2007 IP
  2. henryb

    henryb Member

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    #2
    Are these the only options you consider? Why don't you add Debian and Ubuntu?
     
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  3. pruad

    pruad Peon

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    #3
    Oh, man! Where is Slackware, Gentoo, Mandriva, Fedora, CentOS, SUSE ... in your poll?
     
    pruad, Aug 10, 2007 IP
  4. sea otter

    sea otter Peon

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    #4
    What, no SCO? I kid, I kid.

    But seriously...where's *BSD? And you should probably change RedHat Linux to just Linux, in all its flavors, as pruad kinda pointed out (especially since when it comes to Linux I'm a slackware guy).

    That said, out of your list (and based on my own experience), I voted for Solaris.

    stealth edit: looks like mine's the first vote.
     
    sea otter, Aug 10, 2007 IP
  5. void

    void Peon

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    #5
    Buy?!

    I won't mention that you're including non-Unix operating systems in your list of Unix operating systems, that'd be pedantic...
     
    void, Aug 11, 2007 IP
  6. sea otter

    sea otter Peon

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    #6
    All kidding aside, the three "big" systems you list are closely wedded to specific hardware. What kind of setup are you planning? A single server? A cluster? Lots of external storage? How will the entire system be monitored and administered? Who's going to admin the box/es? (each hw/sw combination comes with a completely different set of monitoring and admin tools, very vendor-specific. Finding someone who knows a particular system is a large part of the equation).

    You obviously don't have to answer those questions here, but those are the kinds of things you need to be thinking about.

    Also, even though I recommended Solaris, be aware that for some inexplicable reason Sun makes it very difficult to buy their hardware. Unless you order their basic boxes off the web, you have to go through a VAR, and many Sun VARs are notoriously unreliable.

    I know several medium-sized companies (webhosts, financial service firms, etc.) which wanted to use Sun equipment, but switched to other hardware because they couldn't get the VARs to close the deals. And we're talking hundreds of thousands of Dollars in each case here!

    So...lots of things to think about.
     
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    #7
    Not enough choices, also you didnt mention what you are using it for. General hosting? Centos is my choice.
     
    ecw, Aug 11, 2007 IP
  8. reptile

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    #8
    Guys we are planning to buy that for our office purpose and we have only these options...anyways thanks for your valuable suggestions..
     
    reptile, Aug 12, 2007 IP