Herman, I would like to keep this conversation on a professional level, thus I will not take personally any of your comments. I believe that your frustration with Linux arises from the following: On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Herman Knief wrote:
Not true. I run one of the largest public web sites in the world, using Linux as a front end (I think we are second to Google.) We have a LOT of problems with systems crashing, but generally under very high loads.
Can you disclose the actual load levels and details of the crashes? (We recommend these systems to our clients, and any information would be helpful in the design phase) Have you considered any other Operating Systems?? (Solaris, MS Cluster etc.) Why did you (or company/boss) go with Linux? Or is still with Linux?
->>> 2. Freedom / Here to stay ---- Due to Open Source users and vendors are ->>> sure of the staying power of the OS. (Will not go out of business - ->>> thus not be supported)
Freedom yes, but try getting REAL support for kernel problems. I happen to know Linus personally and have dealt directly with Alan Cox on some of our issues, and still have problems getting fixes.
This may be true, and may be a problem for the Linux community unless a properly scaled testbed is available for the developer (assuming this is the issue). Has Sourceforge addressed this isssue to a degree? In my opinion Linux is maturing, and will need more time to increase the limit of its scalability.
->>> 4. Scalable ---- True 32 bit preemptive multitasking, multi-user. - ->>> can run in multi-processor machines. Clustering capability.
Scalable within limits... Linux's scheduler and thread model are pretty immature.
How did you arrive at this conclusion? Please do not take my comments personally. Thanks, Tony -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq