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Linux to Replace Solaris at Duke

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Quiet around here by klipsch_gmx · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why do you post so fucking much?

  2. Everyone knows already. by brennz · · Score: 0, Troll

    Solaris is dying

  3. Re:Linux or Solaris... FreeBSD! by DA-MAN · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, FreeBSD is more secure becuase it uses a very mature codebase and has much better quality control than Linux does.

    Yes, listen to the Anonymous Coward, having a more mature codebase doesn't mean you're too slow/agile to implement new things. It mean's you're secure and have better quality control.

    As proof I'd like to offer sendmail (also from the BSD group)! Why I'd never trust that Johnny Come Lately's qmail or postfix for e-mail when a mature codebase such as sendmail has been around for so long. . .

    And as we all know bind (once again BSD group) is damn near synonymous with DNS because it is also the most mature code base . . .

    For all you that can't read between the lines I am being sarcastic.

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