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Unreliable Linux Dumped from Crest Electronics
nri writes "The Age writes, Linux misses Windows of opportunity. Crest Electronics chose a Linux operating system, then seven months on, the company chose to abandon it for Windows.
Mr Horton says. ".. the machine would basically, putting it in Windows terms, core dump or blue screen at random. It would run for weeks or so and then just bang, it would stop....I fully support Linux but if I had to make the decision again I'd pick Windows. A big reason is the fact Windows was up and running in two hours at all the right patch levels. The installation of SAP took two days on Windows, the installation on Linux Red Hat took two weeks. The total cost of ownership is actually lower in this case than with Linux because of the hidden costs of the support.""
Dood..you are a fucking idiot. You have never used linux....maybe you tried to install once but you didn't know what a partition was. Don't front like you have been using Linux since 1999. You must be 15....try it, use it, learn what you are talking about.
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Maybe you should learn how to use a Linux system before deciding it's crap 'cause you can't do a double-click install with your little GUI. Doh did I say that?
I'll readily concede X is slow and ugly, but if its unreliable for you, its because you're a retard who should stay far away from linux systems. The only time I've seen unreliability in X is when one is using proprietary drivers from ATI or NVIDIA, in which case, they're only a little less reliable than the Windoze machines. I have never seen X crash with normal desktop use. When lockups occur, its alway because of the application doing something its not supposed to do. I don't run the application, and golly gee, I never get a crash.
Yeah, if the extent of your computing requirements is to play a computer game with voxels, you shouldn't be using X or linux.
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They are using RHEL3 maybe they had one of those problems with kswapd. We've had problems with kswapd on RH9 too. Had to reboot a server every few days. So yeah, things aren't all that great despite the great faith some fanatics have in Linux.
If you bother to look, Linux isn't quite as stable as some people believe it is, at least for some versions of Red Hat Linux. Makes you wonder what Red Hat are doing. They are supposed to be making their kernels more stable than the developer kernels (which aren't that stable - the kernel developers nowadays don't seem to care as much about that).
for the link. Otherwise, you're a total asshole, but it's nice to know that you aren't a total waste of carbon atoms.
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Everyone who works in Software and deals in Quality knows that SAP is a piece of JUNK!! It's crap software and it never works out of the box. It's not Linux that was the problem, it was SAP.