On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 04:13:51PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> >I'm not sure why going with CMD means this has to be on linux.
> Because we are a Linux shop it has nothing to do with FBSD
> as much as it has everything to do with Linux. As I said earlier
> I can run FBSD, I prefer Linux.
>
> Having one OS in the facility greatly decreases costs in maintenance,
> administration etc.. and allows us to keep up to date on important
> things easier.
Sure, but the flip-side is that there really shouldn't be any need for
anyone on-site to need to touch the OS itself. For example,
distributed.net has run boxes all over the place for years and I think
we've only twice needed human intervention at the console due to
software, and that was only because we didn't have a hardware-based
serial console.
Of course I'm sure you guys have a bunch of OS and application level
monitoring you can do if it's on linux, but if the folks who are running
this stuff would rather roll that themselves I have no problem with
that.
Ultimately, everyone's motivation in OSS is different; if the folks
running pgFoundry enjoy doing so because it's on FBSD that's fine with
me, so long as stuff is working well.
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