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Skriven 2007-04-08 23:02:06 av Ryan de Laplante (1:229/1394.0)
    Kommentar till text 484 av Mvan Le (3:800/432.0)
Ärende: Maximus on Solaris 10
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 ML> I'd personally keep running Maximus on x86 Windows. 
 ML> Maximus v3.01 (DOS) is stable. All the other platforms are bodgey. 
 ML> As long as they keep making VMware work for Windows 2000 I'm happy.

I might end up doing that.  I plan on retiring my current desktop to replace it
with a Sun workstation, and could use the old desktop to run Max on Windows. 
It's much newer than the old PII450 that runs my bbs now. It just would have
been so nice to be able to use the Linux maximus :/  I'll still give the linux
version a try to see where it's at.


 ML> Hmm. The whole DOS EMU part may be entirely independent of Maximus.

 ML> Because Maximus can run doors after being unloaded from 
 ML> memory (eg. via Xtern_Erlvl) it could be reasonably 
 ML> assumed that running doors only require the same 
 ML> process of passing hot com ports/handles/sockets (for 
 ML> DOS/NT/Linux respectively) to DOS EMU - assuming 
 ML> Xtern_Erlvl works the same under Linux as DOS or OS/2.

 ML> Not sure if Maximus has to be enhanced for this kind of 
 ML> socket handling. I'll ask those Synchronet guys.

I've always used Xtern_Dos in my menus.ctl to execute batch files to start
doors. Is that any different?  I'm sure the Synchronet guys will have useful
information.  Even if Max needs some tweaking to work with DOSEMU, it will be
well worth it.  There are external programs people use other than doors such as
EZ-ROM, one liner programs during login, etc... there is more to a bbs than
doors, but people won't call my bbs without doors.  I would imagine any other
potential Maximus/Linux sysop would agree.


Thanks for taking the time to look into this.

You asked earlier why anyone would want to use Solaris, and hinted that you are
a big Red Hat fan.  I'll admit I'm a big Sun fan.  Some big plusses about
Solaris 10 : 

1) ZFS lets you expand your file system by adding more drives to the "pool".  

2) TCP/IP stack in Solaris 10 is up to 300% faster than any other OS because of
a complete redesign. 

3) Solaris containers (virtual servers) are very fast, easy to configure and
very secure.  Even if an app crashes the whole virtual OS in a container it
can't affect other containers or the main system.  US DoD, military and banks
trust Solaris containers.  

4) DTrace lets you monitor and debug any running application without the
source, recompiling or restarting the app or OS. 

5) It's been around since 1982.  Rock solid security, performance and
scalability.


I'm a Java developer.  I love Sun's Java, IDE, application server, developer
support, hardware, Solaris, and other products like directory server, etc...
I'm a brand loyal guy and want to change my network of various linux distros
and OS's to Solaris on everything.  I'm sure there are many people who would
not want to do this for whatever reason.  This is just my home network and my
opinion. Everyone is free to use whichever distros and programming languages
they want. 

BTW Sun is running a campaign trying to convert Red Hat Enterprise Linux users
to Solaris.  I think some of their points are:

1) After 3 years of Red Hat P1 support, the updates aren't quite the same
anymore.  A lot fewer updates?  You either have to upgrade to the latest Red
Hat, or live with less support.  With Solaris, all versions are fully supported
for 7 years.  

2) Solaris support costs are (I think) less than half of Red Hat

3) All the features I mentioned above


I predict your reply will have a bunch of pro-Red Hat, anti Solaris information
:)  FYI, I don't want to engage in a flame war.  You asked why anyone would
want to use Solaris, so I answered. 



Thanks,
Ryan

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