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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.maxwell.syr.edu!worldnet.att.net!howland.erols.net!torn!news1.bellglobal.com!bellglobal.com!c_chaos From: c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca (Andrew Costa) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 6 Apr 1997 17:26:23 GMT Organization: Haywire Engineering Lines: 21 Message-ID: <slrn5kfn6p.1s3.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <5i1216$gc4$1@news3.realtime.net> <33457087.6003026@news.sprynet.com> <5i2ahu$1mi@twin.wasatch.com> <5i3f1a$nc5@hermes.synopsys.com> <5i78ee$bcs@twin.wasatch.com> <3347c5d8.749407980@news.diac.com> Reply-To: seagull@osiris.isys.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: annex1-port18.isys.ca X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19873 comp.os.linux.misc:168303 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38580 In article <3347c5d8.749407980@news.diac.com>, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: >bobh@wasatch.com (Bob Hauck) wrote: > >I agree. On that note, has anyone used SAM (HP-UX) or SMIT (AIX). I >haven't used much of either, but it seems to me in this case a >commercial Unix has the lead over us (whether Linux or FreeBSD). >Anyone who knows more about SAM or SMIT care to comment? Do they even >qualify for this discussion? SMIT under AIX. Once I got used to the idea of leaving the config files alone (not futzing about with them in vi), it worked pretty well. It IS easy to use. The big problem is the ODM - some stuff is kept in a binary database. I don't like THAT atall. I'd rather have the option of editing a text file if SMIT goes wrong or if I want to fine tune something. Not that SMIT has gone wrong on me, but there's no guarantee that it never will. I think something SMIT-like, but operating entirely on the standard text files, would be a big plus in Linux. There you'd have the option of either method of administering the system, or a combination of both.