[hobbit] Which OS is better for Hobbit server ?

[Dan Vande More]

I prefer linux because of the thousands of packages available in standard
formats without worrying about which compiler was used to compile X. Indeed
you might say "Well hobbit compiles on my $OS", but does net-snmp? RRD tool?
perl? perl's dbi/dbh, etc?

I like debian because I write a lot of external scripts for hobbit and
debian's perl library in the native package management is incredible. Plus I
can have an identical machine configured in less than 20 minutes if I have
the output from "dpkg -l" from the old machine.

That's my 2 cents. I run 20 solaris boxen, and I try to keep as little
software on them as possible for the above reasons.

On 10/11/06, Stephane Caminade <stephane.caminade at ias.u-psud.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Frankly I d compare that kind of question with "what is better, plasma
> or lcd ?".
>
> It all depends of what you are running on your server, the number of
> hosts you have to check/gather reports from, how well it will integrate
> with your existing setup ...
>
> I run it on Fedora Core, since my network is mostly composed of that
> release.
> I do however use hobbit to monitor Solaris, from 8 to 10.
>
> Regards,
> Stephane
>
> T.J. Yang wrote:
> > Solaris 10 sparc/intel  or linux ?
> >
> > Not trying to start arguments, Just want to understand how others
> > making their decisions ?
> >
> > For me, I think Solaris 10 has following technical advantages over
> > linux(RH) camp
> > 1. Dtrace to help on problem finding.
> > 2. Faster TCP/IP stack(rewrote and improved in Solaris 10).
> > 3. Very rock solid stable.
> > 4. Commercial support avaiable from Sun if needed.
> > 5. Solarish has no  OS seat-license(RH Linux has it).
> >
> > Thanks for your time
> >
> > T.J. Yang
> >
> >
> >
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