Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 10:08:52 -0700 From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Ben Manes <anarchy@crl.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: parker@Yahoo-inc.com Subject: Re: [svlug] *sigh* (fwd) Message-ID: <19990506100852.A22781@best.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.990506095608.21810B@crl.crl.com>; from Ben Manes on Thu, May 06, 1999 at 09:57:35AM -0700 References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.990506095608.21810B@crl.crl.com>
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Derek is a local PITA. Good thing he has no voice and even himself is forced to run FreeBSD on his desktop. Hehe. I love Yahoo. ;) Yes, it was my idea of going with Linux for oracle. I'd much rather see that happen, then oracle on NT. -- Yan On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 09:57:35AM -0700, Ben Manes <anarchy@crl.com> wrote: > > might interest a few of you... > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 09:17:10 -0700 > From: Derek J. Balling <dredd@megacity.org> > To: svlug@svlug.org > Subject: [svlug] *sigh* > > OK, examples of why/where Linux FAILS in the real world. > > I work for a Large Web Company. (read the headers, do the math). We are a > FreeBSD shop. We are installing Oracle. There is no Oracle for FreeBSD. > Derek suggests Linux. Derek receives the usual sighs and groans in > anticipation of the usual BSD<->Linux flame-war that occurs between myself > and Jan (our security guy, who ALSO happens to be > security-officer@freebsd.org so I'm told). > > Issue # 1: Get the DPT controller working. > > Motherboard has SCSI built onboard but nothing attached to it. In PCI0 is a > spiffy DPT3334 dual-channel SCSI controller. Great, use the EATA-DMA > driver and away we go. > > Except that for some reason Linux doesn't SEE the DPT controller unless we > completely disable onboard NCR driver. Never mind that maybe our original > intent was to boot off the NCR and let the DPT handle the RAID system for > Oracle. Linux won't even touch the DPT until we tell the BIOS to pretend > that the NCR doesn't exist. > > > Issue #2: Choose your preference -- SMP or the ability to USE the box > > The person who did the install (before I got there) installed Red Hat > 5.2... which is all well and good except that RH5.2 out of the box doesn't > know squat about SMP. Considering all the "advances" between 5.2 and 6.0, > silly me says "well, just upgrade to 6.0 for the SMP support and everything > will be great." > > So now, after all is said and done, I have a choice -- reinstall 5.2 and > not have SMP support, or have SMP support and a complete inability to > compile basic simple tools like "ssh". > > No, I cannot just use the RPM for ssh. (is there even one? certainly not > from RH) > > Is there ANY QA being done by RH before they release their code? I would > think the inability to freakin compile would be something that they MIGHT > consider checking? It's not just SSH from what I can tell by reading on > Deja News but other minor things like BIND, Kerberos, etc. > > Any suggestions on how I should get this box operational TODAY using > something other than NT would be greatly appreciated. But from my > employer's perspective, Linux's second-chance-at-a-first-impression came > and went (the first being years ago when we compared BSD/Linux and chose > BSD) and I don't see it getting a third shot after this debacle. > > D > > -- > echo "unsubscribe svlug" | mail majordomo@svlug.org > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ to unsubscribe > see http://www.svlug.org/mdstuff/lists.shtml for posting guidelines. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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