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Uriel wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Benjamin Huntsman
> <BHuntsman@mail2.cu-portland.edu> wrote:
>
>>> i can't agree with this label "research os" if you mean
>>> to imply that it's not stable or somehow unfinished.
>>>
>> Not at all.  Just meant that one doesn't run their company's Oracle database on it.
>> Not because it's not worthy of doing so, but such things just aren't compiled for it.
>>
>
> You might be able to run Oracle with linuxemu...
Hmmm... I would doubt it until tried... I could imagine that databases
use mmap() havily
and the mmap() of linuxemu is just a hack that that reads the whole
file-mapping in... and writes
the whole thing out again on msync()... thats one reason the startup
time of firefox is so
slow on linuxemu (besides it makes millions of stats/open/access calls
when starting up)
> if Firefox runs, anything can!
>
I have seen so mutch programs breaking in obscure ways while hacking
linuxemu... sure,
sometimes you are lucky and it just works... but still dont expect too
mutch...
> uriel
>
cinap