From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Intel, the Pentium and Linux Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 09:17:39 GMT
In article <1993Apr27.220743.9409@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>
> >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.
>
What on earth are you on ? ULTRIX the operating system that leaves you
an open file descriptor the shadow password file when running your shell,
ULTRIX the operating system that crashes if you try and connect back down
an accept()ed socket, have you ever talked to anyone who runs Ultrix X.29
coloured book software on a multiprocessor machine ?
I've not seen many systems that can claim to be good and stable - I've
seen Interactive Unix NFS systems where you have to boot the machines in
the right order to get it to work. SunOS4.1 is probably the closest I've
seen to reliable. I don't think I shall mention SCO at this point.
By the standars of those systems the current Linux is pretty reliable
except with networking. With networking its reboot once a day to clear
the sockets, very occasional erratic crashes and other problems time.
My home machine runs only local tcp/ip, as well as an amateur radio router
under WAMPES, public access via amateur radio and X 24hrs a day 7 days a week.
The last actual crash I had was january, since then its only been intended
reboots for kernel upgrading. Thats a machine doing real work.
Alan