choosing a file system

[Robert Banz]

>
> There's a significant upfront cost to learning a whole new system
> for one killer feature, especially if it comes along with signifiant
> regressions in lots of other features (like a non-sucky userland
> out of the box).

...

The "non-sucky" userland comment is simply a matter of preference, and  
bait for a religious war, which I'm not going to bite.

What I will say is that switching between Solaris, Linux, IRIX,  
Ultrix, FreeBSD, HP-UX, OSF/1 -- any *nix variant, should not be  
considered a stumbling block. Your comment shows the narrow-mindedness  
of the current Linux culture, many of us were brought up supporting  
and using a collection of these platforms at any one time.

(notice, didn't mention AIX. I've got my standards ;)

Patching is always an issue on any OS, and you do have the choice of  
running X applications remotely (booting an entire graphic  
environment!?), and many other tools available such as pca to help you  
patch on Solaris, which provide many of the features that you're used  
to.

-rob