Linux to Replace Solaris at Duke

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 13, 2005 @09:44AM from the post-pepsi-generation dept.

wwhsgrad2002 writes "At the end of the 2004-2005 academic year, the Sun Solaris computers available in public computing labs at Duke University will be replaced. The replacement computers in these spaces will be Dells, running a version of Centos 3.3 as supported by Linux@DUKE. Pragmatic and technical considerations have driven this change, as Linux continues to gain a greater userbase and more third-party commercial software is made available on the platform. Are other universities eliminating Solaris in favor of a Linux distribution?"

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Well, not really universities, but... by eviltypeguy · 2005-04-13 10:05 · Score: 0, Redundant

My company is doing the opposite. We're moving from RHEL to Solaris 10...

Will cost us half as much, provide us with functionality and documentation RedHat didn't provide and overall has been very positive experience so far...
In other news... by CliffH · 2005-04-13 10:51 · Score: 0, Redundant

... Duke still sucks. Oh, wait a sec, wrong site. :)

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