Directadmin under Solaris

Would you like directadmin to availlable for solaris?

  • Yes

    Votes: 11 44.0%

  • No

    Votes: 12 48.0%

  • No Opinion

    Votes: 2 8.0%
  • Total voters
    25
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bami82

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Hi All,

I was wondering if there are more people that would like to see Directadmin to support the new Solaris 10?

Personally I feel that it would be a great hosting platform. Solaris is free of charge and if you need support you can get a support contract cheaper then for example at redhat. I am pretty sure it would make a great hosting platform and sofar I have not seen any hosting control panels supporting solaris.

If you would like to see this, please vote yes in the poll, if not no, or no opinion.

Regards,

Sander
 
bami82 said:
Hi All,

I was wondering if there are more people that would like to see Directadmin to support the new Solaris 10?

Personally I feel that it would be a great hosting platform. Solaris is free of charge and if you need support you can get a support contract cheaper then for example at redhat. I am pretty sure it would make a great hosting platform and sofar I have not seen any hosting control panels supporting solaris.

If you would like to see this, please vote yes in the poll, if not no, or no opinion.

Regards,

Sander
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Waste of time and money on directadmin's part for the hand full of people that would use it.


There is a reason why hosting control panels dont support solaris.

A. its a totally different architecture and the software would probably need to be re written from scratch..

B. solaris sucks
 
h2d said:
Waste of time and money on directadmin's part for the hand full of people that would use it.


There is a reason why hosting control panels dont support solaris.

A. its a totally different architecture and the software would probably need to be re written from scratch..

B. solaris sucks
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The architecture is not that different, you sound like a gnu person. Solaris was never intended to be designed for GNU tools, its a designed for a purpose and it does it very well. Many of the concepts from Solaris are now the basis for new features in the latest gnu OS releases (take your pick). Not the mention the true Sun hardware is rock solid far better then most.

I for one would like to see someone support Solaris Nevada builds with a good control panel. It would be great to OS from a support point of view. The only trick is it would be best to see i386 support and the gcc compiler or binary packages of the software needed installed. The alternative DirectAdmin could their install based on software from say pkgsrc. All could be handled via the addition to the current shell script used to install DA.
 
DA is designed for and written on, RedHat. So it's native to CentOS and RedHat.

Everything else (except CentOS) is a port.

Every time there's a new port, the time it takes to add every new feature gets longer.

Personally I'd like to see less OS distributions supported, not more.

So we can get more features more quickly.

:)

Jeff
 
Having a Solaris "port" would definitely accelerate DirectAdmin sales... We have an extensive architecture built on real hardware vs. PCs and DirectAdmin would be nice to have under the Sparc architecture.
 
First post on this thread in over two years; that doesn't seem like a lot of interest.

There have been some interesting rumors this week that Sun may be acquired by IBM. If it were me doing the investing, then I'd like to if that's going to happen before I'd spend any money and/or time.

DirectAdmin requires a build system for every OS running on every platform. So at the least, JBMC, the publisher of DirectAdmin would have to own a Solaris/Intel system for development on Intel, and to support the one person who so far has expressed interest (you), a Solaris/Sparc system.

And should IBM really buy Sun, do you really think they'd keep the Sparc architecture alive? For how many days^Whours?

Jeff
 
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