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On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Simon Kissler wrote: > The other reason we liked Solaris is because SUN does offer a support > contract option for x86, which we have purchased and which makes it nice > to have that backup of a vendor support team. Their support prices for > educational contracts are far from unreasonable in their pricing from what > I've seen from other vendors. > > -Simon First, let me say that a patched version of LDM 5.1.3 by Anne "You Rock!" Wilson at UNIDATA is now in my hands. It did compile, and there were at least 4 things that 7.1 didn't like about it. So, I hope this does the trick for now until some deeper library and other issues can be fully resolved. I guess I will respond to some of this. In short, my experiences with RedHat, in general, have been extremely positive. And, in general, my experiences with Sun Solaris, and Sun technical support in the past has been appalling. Thus, the switchover to Linux. OK, so I was down. Why? Well, I do try to keep up with the latest OS's. I was very happy with 6.2 but wanted to jump to 7.1. I had heard bad things about 7.0 (which were true), but had been fixed in 7.1. Although learning a ton of new things all at once wasn't a lot of fun, I do like a lot of the stuff on this new version. Solaris had a lot of non-standard stuff that didn't work a lot, or didn't do what it was supposed to. And on a private on-campus Unix list, the yelling about Sun not putting out patches timely when a security hole is discovered, or a patch when something doesn't work, is almost deafening at times. No, thank you. At least for me, my machines have been running great, except for the hard drive that will be replaced next week, slowly dying after 2+ years of continuous hammering. :-) Anyway, quickly...I'm back up, and hopefully stable, as the ldmpqutils have not been activated (I found out from Dave B. at COD that this was likely causing my machine to bomb). So...we should be back up and stable now. I'll monitor this weekend. ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** Internet: gilbert@xxxxxxx (My opinions only!) ****** Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** E-mail: sebenste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx *** web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** Work phone: 815-753-5492 * *******************************************************************************
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