A Return to Linux on the Workstation

Even a Joyent tech admits Ubuntu is a more pleasant experience. Thought this was interesting, but all his points are not isolated to the desktop experience. Pretty much all the reasons he switched to linux affect the building and maintenance of servers too. I think it just boils down to community support.

Re: A Return to Linux on the Workstation

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Post by yankcrime » Thu, Sep 20, 2012, 3:46 PM UTC

sgrove wrote: post #3

Ahem, on the desktop . And the switch was from OSX. I don't much care either way - I use OSX on my workstations and Ubuntu on my servers - but the title seems overhyped for such a simple article.

No, the switch was from Solaris on his workstation - not OS X.

Re: A Return to Linux on the Workstation

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Post by brutuscat » Thu, Sep 20, 2012, 3:47 PM UTC

sgrove wrote: post #3

Ahem, on the desktop . And the switch was from OSX. I don't much care either way - I use OSX on my workstations and Ubuntu on my servers - but the title seems overhyped for such a simple article.

haha I clicked the article because of the hyped title... I was expecting something like "Why Solaris sucks"

Re: A Return to Linux on the Workstation

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Post by brutuscat » Thu, Sep 20, 2012, 3:53 PM UTC

sgrove wrote: post #3

Ahem, on the desktop . And the switch was from OSX. I don't much care either way - I use OSX on my workstations and Ubuntu on my servers - but the title seems overhyped for such a simple article.

But at the end I didn't understand because he wrote "In the end, 3 days later I had been issued a replacement MacBook Pro which I got just as Mountain Lion released." So he went back right?

Re: A Return to Linux on the Workstation

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Post by pjmlp » Thu, Sep 20, 2012, 3:57 PM UTC

gunmetal wrote: post #4

Even a Joyent tech admits Ubuntu is a more pleasant experience. Thought this was interesting, but all his points are not isolated to the desktop experience. Pretty much all the reasons he switched to linux affect the building and maintenance of servers too. I think it just boils down to community support.

I will read the article later, when I have more time, but many geeks that only know Linux and eventually BSD, have no idea how painful commercial UNIX systems can be.

Several of our customers have HP-UX systems that look like plain System V systems straight out of the 70's.

Re: A Return to Linux on the Workstation

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Post by axusgrad » Thu, Sep 20, 2012, 4:05 PM UTC

yankcrime wrote: post #5

sgrove wrote: post #3

Ahem, on the desktop . And the switch was from OSX. I don't much care either way - I use OSX on my workstations and Ubuntu on my servers - but the title seems overhyped for such a simple article.

No, the switch was from Solaris on his workstation - not OS X.

Whenever I had a tough Solaris x86 problem, a web search would usually turn up information from Cuddletech.

Re: A Return to Linux on the Workstation

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Post by gonzo » Thu, Sep 20, 2012, 4:41 PM UTC

brutuscat wrote: post #7

sgrove wrote: post #3

Ahem, on the desktop . And the switch was from OSX. I don't much care either way - I use OSX on my workstations and Ubuntu on my servers - but the title seems overhyped for such a simple article.

But at the end I didn't understand because he wrote "In the end, 3 days later I had been issued a replacement MacBook Pro which I got just as Mountain Lion released." So he went back right?

Right. He, like most of the tech world, is using a Mac on his desktop.