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My main annoyance with “entreprise” server operating systems is how much proprietary bloat they have. Up to now, I’ve see it with Solaris 10, RedHat Enterprise Linux, IBM AIX and of course Windows Server. I understand that in the enterprise world there are a ton of requirements, which inevitably leads to feature bloat, but what irritates me is that each time there is bloat it is described with a proprietary terminology. I really, really don’t think that those made-up product names and thingymabob infrastructure crap are even worth the learning curve.

As an example, I did learn quite a lot about Solaris administration. And I can now safely say that most of it was a waste of time because it was too Solaris-specific. Simple things that are somewhat standardized across Linux and even Mac are completely weird in Solaris (like a simple computer reboot), so it felt like they kept this legacy “culture” as an intellectual lock-in.

So, you want to be a sysadmin and not waste your memory on arcane proprietary crap that will be of no use whatsoever outside of your company? I’d highly suggest Debian GNU/Linux, some Apache HTTPD and some Samba. Everything else seems like a waste of your brain cells in comparison.