From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 12 18:21:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA03882 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 18:21:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from dfw-ix6.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix6.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA03876 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 18:21:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wghhicks@ix.netcom.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by dfw-ix6.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id UAA13281 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 20:21:12 -0600 (CST) Received: from atl-ga28-23.ix.netcom.com(206.214.125.87) by dfw-ix6.ix.netcom.com via smap (V1.3) id rma013224; Wed Nov 12 20:20:55 1997 Message-ID: <346A63FB.2A72AE76@ix.netcom.com> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 21:20:43 -0500 From: Jerry Hicks Reply-To: jerry_hicks@bigfoot.com Organization: TerraEarth X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03b8 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Pentium bug (really) Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------F1DC78B07DA0C49CA7316A39" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------F1DC78B07DA0C49CA7316A39 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Found over in comp.os.qnx > > Geoff Roberts wrote: > > > I have a lot of friends who have Linux as they can't afford anything > > else in the way of a UNIX, and based on their experience with it, I > > wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. It's value I feel is in the fact > > that it *does* teach people about UNIX per se, but as a serious > > contender for industrial/high reliability (mission critical as they > > say) applications, I personally rank it alongside NT. And that is not > > very high. > > Perhaps your friends haven't read the HOWTOs or purchase cheap > hardware, but my experience with Linux is the opposite. I find it > remarkably stable (over 160 days of uptime on our main server). > > It also has one of the best "bug" fix rates I've ever seen. > Ping-of-Death, Flood SYN, etc.. And as of today, it's one of a > few OSes that have fixes for the Pentium f00f bug (the one that ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > locks up your system because of a bug in Intel's chip). > > Try it for yourself and see what it's like. > > - Paul Interesting... Jerry Hicks jerry_hicks@bigfoot.com --------------F1DC78B07DA0C49CA7316A39 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Path: ix.netcom.com!visi.com!chippy.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!news.sprintisp.com!sprintisp!news-peer-west.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!209.89.75.15!News.Toronto.iSTAR.net!News1.Ottawa.iSTAR.net!news.istar.net!news.achilles.net!not-for-mail From: "Paul J.Y. Lahaie" Newsgroups: comp.os.qnx Subject: Re: QNX vs Linux Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 23:20:49 +0000 Organization: Atlantis Scientific Inc. Message-ID: <346A39D1.9418FD00@atlsci.com> References: <63o5ik$ak0@qnx.com> <01bced67$b82c59e0$64930cc0@ta_sn_1> <647tql$5h8@drn.zippo.com> <346A0003.3CD8@cww.de> <3469807f.1509700@news.zippo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: elenuial.atlsci.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.1.63 i586) Xref: ix.netcom.com comp.os.qnx:16747 Geoff Roberts wrote: > I have a lot of friends who have Linux as they can't afford anything > else in the way of a UNIX, and based on their experience with it, I > wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. It's value I feel is in the fact > that it *does* teach people about UNIX per se, but as a serious > contender for industrial/high reliability (mission critical as they > say) applications, I personally rank it alongside NT. And that is not > very high. Perhaps your friends haven't read the HOWTOs or purchase cheap hardware, but my experience with Linux is the opposite. I find it remarkably stable (over 160 days of uptime on our main server). It also has one of the best "bug" fix rates I've ever seen. Ping-of-Death, Flood SYN, etc.. And as of today, it's one of a few OSes that have fixes for the Pentium f00f bug (the one that locks up your system because of a bug in Intel's chip). Try it for yourself and see what it's like. - Paul --------------F1DC78B07DA0C49CA7316A39--