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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4986 comp.os.linux.misc:33785 comp.os.os2.advocacy:75240 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!gt-news!cc.gatech.edu!not-for-mail From: chris@cc.gatech.edu (Chris Adams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: 21 Jan 1995 15:32:04 -0500 Organization: College of Computing, Georgia Tech Lines: 42 Message-ID: <3frr04$h43@oscar.cc.gatech.edu> References: <950116203411@lambada> <3fpk32$80i@unix.sri.com> <3fqh6a$sl@manuel.anu.edu.au> <3frcki$k5k@ivory.lm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: oscar.cc.gatech.edu NNTP-Posting-User: chris In article <3frcki$k5k@ivory.lm.com>, Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com> wrote: >Look. In picking Windows, you picked a loser. I agree. However, if you >honestly think that because ONE commecial product YOU chose sucked, all >commercial products are bad, I've got this great bridge in Brooklyn I'd >like to sell you. Maybe if you had weighed your purchasing decision more >carefully before deciding on Windows and chosen a better OS and vendor, you >wouldn't be saying such wildly ridiculous things now. A better OS, like maybe SCO? Or UnixWare? I know someone at NASA who is considering putting Linux on ~50 386/486 machines. Currently, they are running Dell Unix, which is basically SysVR4 repackaged. He has had support problems (like stay on the phone for days to get a bug fixed) since day 1. They have now switched over to using XFree86 for their X servers, because Dell no longer supports Dell Unix (they only sell Solaris now). The main problem they have with Linux right now is that things are still a little to volatile. They will want support (of course), and there are companies that sell support for Linux (pick up a copy of Linux Journal sometime). As for Solaris, you couldn't make me buy it from what I have experienced. Here at Tech, they replaced our old Sequent Symmetry (10 386s in parallel) with a new Sun SparcServer 2000 almost 2 years ago. Except it doesn't still work today. Sun has basically added a new branch office at our computer building. They have brought in two SparcServer 1000s to help share the load. They have upgraded Solaris to 2.3, 2.4, a special version of 2.4 for large systems. While I agree that Sun seems to be working hard to fix the problems, they can't seem to get it right. If anyone had added SMP to Linux, I would have been interested in trying to port it to the old Symmetry. Even the old computer with Dynix seemed to handle a better load than the new Sun with the latest, greatest Solaris. >Whatta maroon. Where was the 'Ka-BOOM'? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Ka-BOOM! -- Chris Adams - Computer Science chris@cc.gatech.edu -or- gt8741b@prism.gatech.edu - formerly racerx@iquest.com "With friends like these, who needs halucinations?" - Buddy, 'Night Court' Abandon all hope, ye who PRESS ENTER here.