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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5197 comp.os.linux.misc:34551 comp.os.os2.advocacy:77464 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!udel!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!info!iialan From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! X-Nntp-Posting-Host: iifeak.swan.ac.uk Message-ID: <D38Aqt.uH@info.swan.ac.uk> Sender: news@info.swan.ac.uk Organization: Institute For Industrial Information Technology References: <3fjcn4$24u@nkosi.well.com> <3fmi6c$ang@galaxy.ucr.edu> <3fndtq$4ba@nuhou.aloha.net> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 17:18:28 GMT Lines: 22 In article <3fndtq$4ba@nuhou.aloha.net> Delbert Matlock <matlock@aloha.net> writes: >I've been moving more and more network services off of my network's >Sun station to two different Linux boxes. First went the DNS service >since I never could get it to behave on the Sun. Second went the >mail-relay service for the office E-mail system. Before going away >completely, I even moved a news server over. I've been doing the same for our computer society. The Sun systems we have are as reliable but less maintainable. Its so much nicer when you can hack setuid() in the kernel to be more facist than normal 8) SunOS 4.1.1 (+ about 800 vendor patches) is a bit more stable, and I still would be cautious about running a 60 client EfNET irc server under Linux but for the rest its much better, and stuff like dialog and commands with --help are a godsend with our typical users. Alan -- ..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,, // Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU // ``----------'`--[Anti Kibozing Signature]-'`----------------------------'' One two three: Kibo, Lawyer, Refugee :: Green card, Compaq come read me...