From: willmore@iastate.edu (David Willmore) Subject: Re: Intel, the Pentium and Linux Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 03:12:03 GMT
iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes:
>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.
Maybe you shouldn't use the unsupported subsets? Better yet, don't use
the Unix password system at all. We don't. We use kerberos like OSF/1
does. That's modern unix. Does linux have kerberos? Don't expect it
too soon.
>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.
You berate ULTRIX for a networking problem and then say that your system
is better except for it's little networking problem? Nice double standard.
>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.
Good. So what? I never said Linux wasn't stable.
Later,
David
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