From: willmore@iastate.edu (David Willmore) Subject: Re: Intel, the Pentium and Linux Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 19:59:10 GMT
jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>David Willmore (willmore@iastate.edu) wrote:
>:
>: My next machine won't be an Intel archetecture machine. The reasons are
>: fairly clear in the market today. Very low priced RISC PC's are coming into
>: being which are in my price range and can use the standard hardware (IDE
>: drives, floppys, keyboards, vga cards, etc). The difference? They won't
>: need someone to write a 'Linux' for them. They'll *come* with a good OS.
>Ha! Like what, AIX? OSF/1? HP-UX? IRIX? If you think that any of these
>things are half as stable or compatible as Linux, you're in for a big surprise
>after spending the big bucks.
What color is the sky in your world? Iowa State University is a DEC house
and; therefore, uses ULTRIX. Linux has years to go before it can 'walk the
walk' with full blown production Unixes like the ones above. If you think
otherwise, you haven't been sitting on the edge of the Linux releases and
living with uptimes in the hours and *sometimes* days.
I'm just looking around our network here for an example or two. Ok, here's
a ReadOnly NFS server that's been up since Oct 1 1992. There are several
more here with times in Nov and Dec '92. Anyone have a Linux system *that*
stable? If you do, you're running .95 or earlier and therefor having that
system up proves nothing about the stability of the current release of
Linux.
Later,
David
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