"Linux did not perform well handling large loads - those tests in which there were more than 100 users. Under heavier user loads, Linux had a tendency to stop servicing file requests for a short period and then start up again."
Never screw around with large corporations who have millions to blow on lawyers. You could end up like mitnick rotting in jail for years. Although few people realize that it was HIS defense lawyers that asked for the trial date pushed so far back, the government had nothing to do with it.
Doesn't redhat have beta testers? Oh wait I forgot thats you. Thats a good buesiness strategy, have all your paying customers be involuntary guinea pigs.
Don't run CDE and choose what services you install and it should be fine. If you weren't supposed to run solaris on these boxes why would sun include support? Personally I find linux much slower than BSD on sparcs. Don't get me started about the mmu slowdown bug and scsi bus issues. Once during each boot it would panic and reset the scsi bus, although it was fine after that no other OS had problems.
Have you ever used the redhat sparc support? They admitted to only do install support. Forget it if you had issues with RAID disks and such.
Its just FUD coming from linux zealots who can't stand to hear that commercial unix might actually be better for a certain job. *cough*andover.netrunssolarischecknetcraft*cough*
Maybe you haven't checked their stock prices lately or noticed that in 1998 they shipped over 1 million ultrasparc cpus. Sun doesn't care about linux, they know that solaris is much more stable and scales better. I don't see anyone running linux on massive 128 cpu systems. Someone got linux booting on a 16 cpu box. Thats a far far cry from something ready for production.
It will be a trivial task to port solaris to MIPS. Sun has all the solaris docs and specs (duh) and since they can actually spend money on a projet get the MIPS specs. Linux on MIPS and ultrasparc is just reverse engineered drivers and hacks. The first build of MIPS solaris will probably rival linux.
Given the choice of solaris vs linux for a server I would take solaris any day. Whats with these stupid editorial comments? Just fucking show the details and not your hate for solaris (which incidently runs andover.net). Whats andovers motto? Leading the linux revolution....
when someone asked him about another scifi movie he replied "it didn't make much money". Why do you think he won't put phantom menace on dvd? After all 3 movies he can make a special over priced box set and charge more. Personally I can't wait for the lord of the rings trilogy coming in december 2001.
You mean it took 3 years and some 0wning to get taco to fix his security problems. You blast MS for having holes in software but this takes the cake. 3 years!
Better rig up a valve to open up a small tank of acid onto the hard drive platters. Its rumored the feds can recover disks that have been formatted up to 16 times.
Yeah but sun sells closed hardware and software therefor making it evil to the zealot community. Notice how they skipped right over the story about hotmail switching to win2k.
Africa has no heavy industry or major export. The only thing that is exported are minerals such as diamonds and gold, which doesn't take a lot of brains to mine. I'm wondering about the growing their own food statement, you never responded. I agree that maybe you should get rid of those civil wars, aids, and famine before you start worrying about computers. Computers don't help grow food or stop the spread of aids.
"If you wanna stop world hunger, then stop sending them food, don't send these people another bite folks. If you wanna send something you wanna help? Send them u-hauls and some luggage and a guy that goes hey it occured to us that there wouldn't be world hunger if you people would LIVE WHERE THE FOOD IS! YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT, NOTHING GROWS OUT HERE! See that? Yeah its sand, and 100 years from now its still gonna be sand. We'll take you where the food is."
Being that it can only search and index mp3 files napster has a very limited narrow use. It just so happens that about 99% of napster traffic is used for illegaly distributing copyrighted material. "can" be used for piracy? It IS being used for piracy even as we speak. The RIAA can't go after the 99% of illegal napster users, so they have to go after the whole thing.
The point that library and lab computers are meant for learning and not checking your spam filled hotmail account. Someone might actually be doing legitimate research but all the computers are taken up by kids sending each other "haha you suck" messages.
Slashdot Mirror
http://winbeta.microsoft.com
Step 4: Show your boss that OpenBSD has no support for SMP.
Step 5: Show him traffic stats for cdrom.com
Allow me to quote an article on cnn.com concerning linux performance under heavy loads
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http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/01/24/NO
"Linux did not perform well handling large loads - those tests in which there were more than 100 users. Under heavier user loads, Linux had a tendency to stop servicing file requests for a short period and then start up again."
Never screw around with large corporations who have millions to blow on lawyers. You could end up like mitnick rotting in jail for years. Although few people realize that it was HIS defense lawyers that asked for the trial date pushed so far back, the government had nothing to do with it.
Doesn't redhat have beta testers? Oh wait I forgot thats you. Thats a good buesiness strategy, have all your paying customers be involuntary guinea pigs.
Don't run CDE and choose what services you install and it should be fine. If you weren't supposed to run solaris on these boxes why would sun include support? Personally I find linux much slower than BSD on sparcs. Don't get me started about the mmu slowdown bug and scsi bus issues. Once during each boot it would panic and reset the scsi bus, although it was fine after that no other OS had problems.
Have you ever used the redhat sparc support? They admitted to only do install support. Forget it if you had issues with RAID disks and such.
Finally someone who got it right.
Its just FUD coming from linux zealots who can't stand to hear that commercial unix might actually be better for a certain job. *cough*andover.netrunssolarischecknetcraft*cough*
Maybe you haven't checked their stock prices lately or noticed that in 1998 they shipped over 1 million ultrasparc cpus. Sun doesn't care about linux, they know that solaris is much more stable and scales better. I don't see anyone running linux on massive 128 cpu systems. Someone got linux booting on a 16 cpu box. Thats a far far cry from something ready for production.
It will be a trivial task to port solaris to MIPS. Sun has all the solaris docs and specs (duh) and since they can actually spend money on a projet get the MIPS specs. Linux on MIPS and ultrasparc is just reverse engineered drivers and hacks. The first build of MIPS solaris will probably rival linux.
Given the choice of solaris vs linux for a server I would take solaris any day. Whats with these stupid editorial comments? Just fucking show the details and not your hate for solaris (which incidently runs andover.net). Whats andovers motto? Leading the linux revolution....
when someone asked him about another scifi movie he replied "it didn't make much money". Why do you think he won't put phantom menace on dvd? After all 3 movies he can make a special over priced box set and charge more. Personally I can't wait for the lord of the rings trilogy coming in december 2001.
You mean it took 3 years and some 0wning to get taco to fix his security problems. You blast MS for having holes in software but this takes the cake. 3 years!
So this place has been vulnerable for 3 years now because of plaintext passwords? Great way to push the opensource movement.
Get a life you fucking wanker. Can't take a little joke?
Ok so it boots successfully, how about benchmarks and compile times? specweb scores? etc etc.
Better rig up a valve to open up a small tank of acid onto the hard drive platters. Its rumored the feds can recover disks that have been formatted up to 16 times.
Yeah but sun sells closed hardware and software therefor making it evil to the zealot community. Notice how they skipped right over the story about hotmail switching to win2k.
The pockets of the organizers and big bosses.
Its like the free windows updates from MS but you have to pay a yearly subscription fee. I expect it to die pretty quick.
Africa has no heavy industry or major export. The only thing that is exported are minerals such as diamonds and gold, which doesn't take a lot of brains to mine. I'm wondering about the growing their own food statement, you never responded. I agree that maybe you should get rid of those civil wars, aids, and famine before you start worrying about computers. Computers don't help grow food or stop the spread of aids.
"If you wanna stop world hunger, then stop sending them food, don't send these people another bite folks. If you wanna send something you wanna help? Send them u-hauls and some luggage and a guy that goes hey it occured to us that there wouldn't be world hunger if you people would LIVE WHERE THE FOOD IS! YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT, NOTHING GROWS OUT HERE! See that? Yeah its sand, and 100 years from now its still gonna be sand. We'll take you where the food is."
Gotta love that guy.
Being that it can only search and index mp3 files napster has a very limited narrow use. It just so happens that about 99% of napster traffic is used for illegaly distributing copyrighted material. "can" be used for piracy? It IS being used for piracy even as we speak. The RIAA can't go after the 99% of illegal napster users, so they have to go after the whole thing.
"Sheesh, there always has to be one asshole in the group with some stupid criticism."
I know the feeling...
The point that library and lab computers are meant for learning and not checking your spam filled hotmail account. Someone might actually be doing legitimate research but all the computers are taken up by kids sending each other "haha you suck" messages.