Comments on: The Difference Between Retiring Unix and Windows Servers http://devnulled.com/content/2006/10/the-difference-between-retiring-unix-and-windows-servers/ devnulled provides news, tips, resources, and articles about various topics that software developers and engineers enjoy. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:56:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Ivan http://devnulled.com/content/2006/10/the-difference-between-retiring-unix-and-windows-servers/#comment-163000 Ivan Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:08:32 +0000 http://devnulled.com/content/2006/10/the-difference-between-retiring-unix-and-windows-servers/#comment-163000 There's no doubt Windows boxes should not be used in production environments (unless there's a need to run MS-specific applications). *nix boxes need much less maintenance and WAY less reboots. I also think *nix servers yield better performance and stability on any hardware. Sean has it right when comparing the ever-increasing resources needed by MS's operating systems, just to get the same performance as their previous one. And when it comes to server uptime, *nix servers beat Microsoft's hands down. A Linux Webserver can be for literally months before having to reboot, even when applying upgrades and patches. I can't really say the same about Windows. Can you? Iván There’s no doubt Windows boxes should not be used in production environments (unless there’s a need to run MS-specific applications). *nix boxes need much less maintenance and WAY less reboots.

I also think *nix servers yield better performance and stability on any hardware. Sean has it right when comparing the ever-increasing resources needed by MS’s operating systems, just to get the same performance as their previous one.

And when it comes to server uptime, *nix servers beat Microsoft’s hands down. A Linux Webserver can be for literally months before having to reboot, even when applying upgrades and patches. I can’t really say the same about Windows. Can you?

Iván

]]> By: Sean LeBlanc http://devnulled.com/content/2006/10/the-difference-between-retiring-unix-and-windows-servers/#comment-27223 Sean LeBlanc Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:04:25 +0000 http://devnulled.com/content/2006/10/the-difference-between-retiring-unix-and-windows-servers/#comment-27223 Sorry to see hilo go. Yeah, Windows is really getting me down too, and that's on the desktop. Right now, I have a W2K box that has empty text for ALL the items in the add/remove software dialog. Awesome. So I get to guess from the icons what I'm uninstalling? Let the good times roll. And of course, I cannot get iTunes installer to put the new version on - the dialog just disappeares, with the installer EXE still running. My theory about Apple & iTunes, though, is that Apple makes it as crappy as possible on Windows so people think Windows sucks. On the other hand, I have a FBSD 4.8 box that I haven't maintained very well, and it has issues too - mozilla is not working, gimp is not working. But what I actually use it for - email - it does just fine. I can hear the dissenters already - but, but, but, Windows 2000 is old, you need to upgrade. Yeah, well, that cycle gets old and needlessly expensive, if you keep it legal. To be fair to MS, I think it was a 3rd party app installer that fouled up the add/remove software dialog. I'm sure something that was poorly written for Linux could hork up package systems like RPMs or dpkg or ports tree. Another great thing about FreeBSD/Linux is that even relatively crappy hardware can be used to provide server functions. It would have been funny to see how that same box handled Windows Server 2003 or the like... Sorry to see hilo go. Yeah, Windows is really getting me down too, and that’s on the desktop. Right now, I have a W2K box that has empty text for ALL the items in the add/remove software dialog. Awesome. So I get to guess from the icons what I’m uninstalling? Let the good times roll.

And of course, I cannot get iTunes installer to put the new version on - the dialog just disappeares, with the installer EXE still running. My theory about Apple & iTunes, though, is that Apple makes it as crappy as possible on Windows so people think Windows sucks.

On the other hand, I have a FBSD 4.8 box that I haven’t maintained very well, and it has issues too - mozilla is not working, gimp is not working. But what I actually use it for - email - it does just fine.

I can hear the dissenters already - but, but, but, Windows 2000 is old, you need to upgrade. Yeah, well, that cycle gets old and needlessly expensive, if you keep it legal. To be fair to MS, I think it was a 3rd party app installer that fouled up the add/remove software dialog. I’m sure something that was poorly written for Linux could hork up package systems like RPMs or dpkg or ports tree.

Another great thing about FreeBSD/Linux is that even relatively crappy hardware can be used to provide server functions. It would have been funny to see how that same box handled Windows Server 2003 or the like…

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