[Toolserver-l] Status of the latest hardware order

Yann Forget yann at forget-me.net
Tue May 19 09:06:54 UTC 2009


Hello,

River Tarnell wrote:
> Marcin Cieslak:
>> I think that for stability it is useful to have more homogenious environment
>> (pretty similar setup on multiple machines) so that, for example, moving a
>> project from 'unstable' to 'stable' is easy.
> 
> yes; the only reason we don't is that most of our users only have experience
> with Linux, and find the Solaris userland unfamiliar (this was evident when we
> only had one server, which ran Solaris).  we thought that using Linux on the
> login servers, while adding complexity for us, would reduce the amount of user
> support we had to do.  
> 
> unfortunately the original plan - which was that i would continue to maintain
> the Solaris side of the infrastructure and someone else would be responsible
> for the user servers running Linux - did not work out very well, and a lot of
> my time is taken up fixing problems on the Linux side. 

Is there a list/compilation of problems found on Linux? I think that
would be quite interesting for a lot of people. May be on the wiki?

> 	- river

Best regards,

Yann
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