Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 May 1999 11:09:02 -0700 | From | Mark Hull-Richter <> | Subject | Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd) |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > Consider this: The professional programming community has taken a long > > time (almost ten years?) to look at Linux as a useful, viable product. > > Its not that old 8) > Well, I said almost....
> > Isn't there (a LOT of) room for improvement in Linux? If not, why are > > we moving towards 2.3 and beyond with an eye toward CORRECTING some of > > its flaws? > > There is a lot yes. But his comments are mostly rather inaccurate on the > reliability side. Ask cobalt if the Linux/mips kernel they ship in the Qube > seems to be less reliable than windows. > I'd have to agree - our Alpha development platform has been up on 2.0.35 since October, and I think it hasn't needed to be rebooted yet, except when we moved from our old facility to the current one at EOY98. We also had another box that was one of our network servers and had been running a really old version of Linux (1.something) for two years straight before it finally died (disk errors, not Linux problems).begin:vcard adr;dom:;;1821 East Dyer Road;Santa Ana;CA;92705; n:;Mark Hull-Richter x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Procom Technology, Inc. version:2.1 email;internet:markh@procom.com title:Senior Software Engineer tel;fax:949-851-3907 tel;work:949-794-4242 or 800-800-8600x67 x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Mark Hull-Richter end:vcard
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