Re: Slashdiot article about P6 -- MIDRANGE-L

I concur 100%. I recently started doing some part time work for thelocal Montessori school, and am having to learn Linux in order tomaintain their proxy server, and add email, web and a wiki. Theexisting proxy server is running Fedora, and Apache. I looked aroundfor some wiki software, chose Wacko after trying something else, and itstarts out with a relatively simple install procedure, after whichconfiguration is supposed to be done via a browser, but that's where itall started to fall apart. Getting the right version of Python to runwith the version of Apache that works with the Fedora core isn't muchfun, especially for someone just learning it all. And all the forumsare oriented towards people whose idea of fixing it is to download thesource for everything and recompile. And if you don't have thecompiler, download that too.


And I haven't even tried email yet.

*Peter Dow* /
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 793-9050
pdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:pdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> /

Ingvaldson, Scott wrote:

I'm not meaning to speak for David, but he appears to be referring to the Linux UPGRADE process, not Linux operational issues.

We have been running Linux in production for years and have had very few 
operational issues.  We can easily clone a new Linux server from an existing 
one.  But when it comes time to upgrade we have had to start from scratch, 
building a new server and migrating the applications and data, and then do 
extensive testing before going to production.  Our iSeries upgrades normally 
only require upgrading the O/S in test, (usually no application or data work at 
all) normal operation for two or three months, then upgrading the production 
O/S.  Linux upgrades require days, and a team of administrators and 
programmers; iSeries upgrades usually require half a day and my time only.  I 
have never had to rebuild a production iSeries after an upgrade.

In the event of a complete hardware replacement i5's only require a relatively 
simple unload/reload, no application or database reinstallation, etc.  
Compatibility issues are almost unheard of.

Certainly Linux is exceptionally reliable; but it is nowhere near the i5OS in 
ease of use and built-in, out of the box capabilities.

my 2¢

Regards,

Scott Ingvaldson

System i Administrator
GuideOne Mutual Insurance Company


-----Original Message-----
date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 08:28:28 +0100
from: "Knezevic, Mihael" <Mihael.Knezevic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: AW: Slashdiot article about P6

Uh, right ... I've had problems with just about EVERY linux upgrade

I've

ever done ... none of them were completely seamless.  When I upgraded

to

Fedora Core 4 my database was hosed for a while.


i don't know your specs, requiremnts and the software you used/
installed but i am running a linux based os for server and client and i
got not a single problem at all with the os for years. one server is
running for over a year without a single reboot. and don't mix os
problems with application problems.

my 2 cents

mihael