Migrating from Ubuntu to Unix

Schnippzle

Schnippzle

Schnippzle

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Hi guys,
I have been playing around with Ubuntu for a number of years now on my file server, and feel like Im "ready" to make the move to Unix. The question is, what flavour of unix would be best suited for a networked file server hosting multiple mounted hard drives (none in RAID), working as a postfix mail server, ftp and samba? As I understand it (limited unix knowledge here), I can chose between FreeBSD, OpenBSD, UnixWare, Solaris and NetBSD. Which would be best suited for my needs?
 
Move to Unix?

Linux is, like the others you posted, is a Unix like OS.

And many more commercial servers use Linux than any of the OSs you posted. Look at CentOS, RHEL, and SLES.
 
Schnippzle said:
Linux is essentially a "unix-like os". The term specifies that although the OS does share features with Unix, it isnt a Unix OS.
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It's the same for the BSD systems you listed, none are registered as SUS compliant yet.

I'd go for Solaris personally.
 
Schnippzle said:
Hi guys,
I have been playing around with Ubuntu for a number of years now on my file server, and feel like Im "ready" to make the move to Unix. The question is, what flavour of unix would be best suited for a networked file server hosting multiple mounted hard drives (none in RAID), working as a postfix mail server, ftp and samba? As I understand it (limited unix knowledge here), I can chose between FreeBSD, OpenBSD, UnixWare, Solaris and NetBSD. Which would be best suited for my needs?
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OpenSolaris


ZFS with Snapshotting over NFS was made for you.


Use it here on all my systems if you have any q's
 
Seems a little confusing to move from Linux to Unix unless you have a very good reason to do so :confused: the only difference I tend to find between Unix and Linux on a daily basis is trivial stuff like the minor differences between the options that Linux commands have an Unix don't. If I where you I'd seriously consider using running on of the Unix flavours in something like VMware to see if you really want to go through with this move.

If you're doing this for professional experience I'd recommend HP-UX
 
dangerstat said:
If you're doing this for professional experience I'd recommend HP-UX
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But no-one uses HP-UX any more!!!

For experience useful in a corporate environment, Solaris or AIX but many new server builds in corporates will be RHEL so do that particularly with respect to its networking and security layers.
 
HP-UX is definitely still used, just very rarely, AIX is used more.

But for both of these you're going to have to buy hardware, an IBM pSeries for AIX, and a System V or Itanium for HP-UX.
 
MikeTimbers said:
But no-one uses HP-UX any more!!!

For experience useful in a corporate environment, Solaris or AIX but many new server builds in corporates will be RHEL so do that particularly with respect to its networking and security layers.
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lol

I work for an international IT service company looking after Unix boxes for many customers and government departments. I would say at the moment with what we look after:

solaris > hp-ux = linux > aix

The former you can get a x86 flavour for of course but the others need compatible hardware; (hpux: PARISC or Itanium, aix: RS6000 or pseries) .... I actually have a RS6000, a PARISC workstation and a SPARC box in my garage :)

In fact I probably have more projects ongoing or planned at the moment involving HPUX than any of the others ...
 
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