Re: Quimby Upgrade

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On 10 Apr 2001, Jason R. Mastaler wrote:
> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
>> What this mailing list needs is a good old-fashioned OS flame war,
> 
> Well how about this then. While Linux makes a cute desktop/notebook
> OS, it falls miserably short in most of the categories that matter for
> larger-scale, high-performance applications (filesystem, 

Particularly what areas of them?

> network stack, 

Ditto.

> NFS, 

Here, I agree completely. 

> SMP, 

Details on what areas?

> etc..). Linux is like a zoo without a keeper.

In a lot of ways, yes.

        Daniel

PS: I am looking for actual facts here, not flame bait. I occasionally
need to recommend to people which of the free Unix clones to chose and,
because /I/ don't know what the differences are, I go Debian.

I am quite happy to learn why I want something else, though.

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