Rants and raves about workstation vendors

[Christos Ricudis]

Hello all!

Telika h kyriarxia twn free unices sto xwro toy UNIX den einai ka8olou tuxaio
gegonos. Aplws, einai toso kalytera se 8emata usability, functionality kai
administration, poy den mporoun na sygkri8oun me tipote allo. 

Kanw administration (erasitexnika kai epaggelmatika) se sxedon o,tidhpote
mporei na treksei unix. H empeiria moy apo tous commercial UNIX/hardware
vendors, oson afora thn pleyra toy sysadmin, einai panw katw h ekshs : 

SUN : O,ti pio sobaro yparxei, kata th gnwmh moy. Aksiopisto hardware kai kalo
software, ektos an tyxei na peseis sthn periptwsh. To administration toy
Solaris einai strwto kai hpio, kai den synantas idiaitera problhmata. O,ti
psaxneis na breis einai panw-katw ekei poy perimeneis na to breis. Osoi
diafwnoyn me thn apopsh moy, as diabasoyn parakatw :>

SGI : Problhmata me to hardware toys den eixa. 8a'8ela omws na hksera ti
akribws epinan oi typoi poy eftiaksan to Irix. Gia na to diapistwsete,
ksypnhste ena wraio prwi kai psakste na breite poy krybetai h entolh ifconfig.
An sas fanei logiko, deite poy brisketai h df, kai meta prospa8hste na
katalabete th synolikh logikh twn developers tou Irix afou diapistwsete poy
exoun topo8ethsei thn telnet. An den sas exei piasei akoma ponokefalos,
prospa8hste na egkatasthsete thn GNU C. Kalhnyxta sas. 

HP : Dokimaste na egkatasthsete HP-UX 10.20 (den trexoyn oloi 11, for a variety
of reasons). Dokimaste na allakete to default disk space allocation. Gia added
flavour, dokimaste na kanete remote install to HP-UX apo opoiodhpote allo UNIX.
Afou telika kataferete na to egkatasthsete (kai an), dokimaste na to
xrhsimopoihsete. For added flavour, kante ena HP-UX print server. 

IBM : Kante boot ena RS/6000. Dokimaste na epilysete OPOIODHPOTE problhma
mporei na emfanistei prin shkw8ei to AIX se multiuser mode. For added flavour,
prospa8hste na katalabete ti kanei to mhxanhma s'olo ayto to diasthma (hint: 3
digit display). Afou telika shkw8ei to systhma, dokimaste na kanete OPOIODHPOTE
synh8ismeno admin task xwris na xrhsimopoihsete to SMIT, h dokimaste na kanete
otidhpote den perilambanoun ta menus toy SMIT. Den xreiazetai na psaksete gia
maxairi, mporeite na kopsete tis flebes sas me to kleidi toy systhmatos.

DEC : Psakste na breite pws onomazoyn to leitourgiko toys ayth thn ebdomada. 

#include <stddisc.h> : Oxi, den me plhrwnei h SUN. 

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Christos Ricudis

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