For those who've only managed UNIX and/or God forbid -- NT systems, you haven't experienced true sysadmin nirvana until you've performed a rolling upgrade of a VMScluster. With multiple system disks, you can run a mixed-version cluster while the upgrade is in progress. Pick a system disk, upgrade it, reboot the other machines attached to it, and voila! It's done. Repeat for each system disk until the cluster upgrade is complete. Then go home and get a good night's sleep.
All this without losing system availability.
Sure parts of the cluster may be unavailable, but never the whole enchilada at once.
You can't do that with your systems.;)
Switching topics here...
I don't about other admins, but one thing I've noticed about VAX/VMS systems, almost from the very beginning -- end users HATED it. They loathed it.
It made them stomp
and stammer
and scream
and holler
and cuss
and spit.
My first real job (back in college, about 15 years ago) consisted of migrating programs (written in the holiest of languages, BASIC-PLUS-2), from a PDP 11/70 (running RSTS/E -- KICKASS BABY!) to VAX BASIC on a VAX 11/780. The end result was a nearly transparent switch-over. Some things were different, this was unavoidable. But it's hard to screw up a menu driven interface run over dumb terminals. Basically, the users' lives went on pretty much as before.
But they HATED the new system. It was faster, it could hold more users, it had new features we could take advantage of, but they hated it. It didn't run the same, it didn't feel right, things ran differently, yada yada yada, and so on. They bitched constantly.
So, over the course of 15 years and several jobs later, I've been listening to users bitch about how the VAX sucks rocks (no need to throw in your 2 cents worth, I've heard it all before).
In my experience, a negative opinion concerning the VAX has been nearly universal. Now, I'm not disputing a legion of disgruntled VMS users. But, you should see how badly things are fsck'ed up at my last job. New management came in and declared the VAX "Evil" and NT "Good". So, they set about a complete system migration over to Windoze NT. Oh, did I mention part of this involved migrating to Oracle? Running on NT!
That's when I left. Hehe.
I guess the moral of this story is, "be careful what you ask for."
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SuSE already has (experimental) RPMS on their ftp server for KDE2/w AA fonts.
e 86 -4.0.2-SuSE/
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/KDE2/
It requires X 4.0.2 which is found below (and contains the experimental QT built with AA support).
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/X/XFree86/XFre
It would be fantastic if it weren't slower than shit. Oh well, I guess that's why they call it experimental.
For those who've only managed UNIX and/or God forbid -- NT systems, you haven't experienced true sysadmin nirvana until you've performed a rolling upgrade of a VMScluster. With multiple system disks, you can run a mixed-version cluster while the upgrade is in progress. Pick a system disk, upgrade it, reboot the other machines attached to it, and voila! It's done. Repeat for each system disk until the cluster upgrade is complete. Then go home and get a good night's sleep.
All this without losing system availability.
Sure parts of the cluster may be unavailable, but never the whole enchilada at once.
You can't do that with your systems. ;)
Switching topics here...
I don't about other admins, but one thing I've noticed about VAX/VMS systems, almost from the very beginning -- end users HATED it. They loathed it.
It made them stompand stammer
and scream
and holler
and cuss
and spit.
My first real job (back in college, about 15 years ago) consisted of migrating programs (written in the holiest of languages, BASIC-PLUS-2), from a PDP 11/70 (running RSTS/E -- KICKASS BABY!) to VAX BASIC on a VAX 11/780. The end result was a nearly transparent switch-over. Some things were different, this was unavoidable. But it's hard to screw up a menu driven interface run over dumb terminals. Basically, the users' lives went on pretty much as before.
But they HATED the new system. It was faster, it could hold more users, it had new features we could take advantage of, but they hated it. It didn't run the same, it didn't feel right, things ran differently, yada yada yada, and so on. They bitched constantly.
So, over the course of 15 years and several jobs later, I've been listening to users bitch about how the VAX sucks rocks (no need to throw in your 2 cents worth, I've heard it all before).
In my experience, a negative opinion concerning the VAX has been nearly universal. Now, I'm not disputing a legion of disgruntled VMS users. But, you should see how badly things are fsck'ed up at my last job. New management came in and declared the VAX "Evil" and NT "Good". So, they set about a complete system migration over to Windoze NT. Oh, did I mention part of this involved migrating to Oracle? Running on NT!
That's when I left. Hehe.
I guess the moral of this story is, "be careful what you ask for."
--Doody, doody, do!
I am John.