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Nice, if only you could count on having it installed on your fleet, and your fleet is 100pct Linux, no AIX, no HPUX, no SOLARIS, no SUSE on IBM Power....

Been there, tried to, got a huge slap in the face.

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Been there, done that. I am so glad I don’t have to deal with all that insanity anymore. In the build farm I was responsible for, I was always happy to work on the Linux and BSD boxes. AIX and HPUX made me want to throw things. At least the Itanium junk acted like a normal server, just a painfully slow one.

I will never voluntarily run a bunch of non-Linux/BSD servers again.

I honestly don't get why there are still a bunch of non-Linux/BSD servers, at least if the goal is to do UNIX-y stuff.

I haven't touched AIX or HPUX in probably a decade and I thought they were a weird idea back then: proprietary UNIX? Is it still 1993?

At the time (10 years ago) I worked for a company with enormous customers who had all kinds of different deployment targets. I bet that list is a lot shorter today.

I hope so, for their sake. shudder

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