Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by kstrauser 356 days ago
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.
1 comments
lenerdenator 355 days ago
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?

link
kstrauser 355 days ago
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

link