"You spend your work day compiling/installing open source software (which was really written with linux in mind) on your Solaris/Sparc machines. You talk to other sys admin friends that are happy with linux on cheap intel machines. You go home and use linux on your desktop. You enjoy reading the linux related websites and feeling like part of a community. And you ask yourself, why don't I just run linux on my Sparcs at work? So you install it on one spare server to try it out<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.... and its bliss. You fall in love with debian apt package management. The same system you run at home, you now run at work, and things just feel more coherent. All that free software out there now compiles and works without any of the snags you used to get. Slowly, linux makes its way onto your other Sparcs.
Thats how it went for me at least. Take CIS and engineering students who now grew up with windows and linux on their desktop and slowly move them into sys admin positions with Solaris<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... we know what will happen. Sun can't fight the future. "
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 20, 2003 07:22 PMhttp://www.groklaw.com/article.php?story=20030919<nobr>1<wbr></nobr> 95024881#comments
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 20 2003 @ 01:12 AM EDT
It sorta hits you after a while.
"You spend your work day compiling/installing open source software (which was really written with linux in mind) on your Solaris/Sparc machines. You talk to other sys admin friends that are happy with linux on cheap intel machines. You go home and use linux on your desktop. You enjoy reading the linux related websites and feeling like part of a community. And you ask yourself, why don't I just run linux on my Sparcs at work? So you install it on one spare server to try it out<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.... and its bliss. You fall in love with debian apt package management. The same system you run at home, you now run at work, and things just feel more coherent. All that free software out there now compiles and works without any of the snags you used to get. Slowly, linux makes its way onto your other Sparcs.
Thats how it went for me at least. Take CIS and engineering students who now grew up with windows and linux on their desktop and slowly move them into sys admin positions with Solaris<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... we know what will happen. Sun can't fight the future. "
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