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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4912 comp.os.linux.misc:33563 comp.os.os2.advocacy:74698 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!csus.edu!news.ucdavis.edu!library.ucla.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!jjs From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: 19 Jan 1995 00:27:31 GMT Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside Lines: 43 Message-ID: <3fkblj$oaq@galaxy.ucr.edu> References: <950116203411@lambada> <1995Jan18.214037.6088@cs.cornell.edu> <3fk4hi$iu8@solaris.cc.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dostoevsky.ucr.edu In article <3fk4hi$iu8@solaris.cc.vt.edu>, matthew c. mead <mmead@goof.com> wrote: >In article <1995Jan18.214037.6088@cs.cornell.edu>, >Matt Welsh <mdw@cs.cornell.edu> wrote: >>First of all, I feel that this is an inaccurate interpretation of the >>attitude taken in the article. The article was rather sympathetic >>towards Linux, and "underware" was used as a joke. They rank Linux >>below commercial software, primarily because they wouldn't trust it >>for "mission-critical" applications. That's fine, if they want to take >>that attitude. > > Catch a clue. You're in school, you have the time to play around with >it all you want. If you'd ever been in industry, you would know the need for >product support. Can you call Linus and say, "My serial port isn't working >right. What do I do?" No. Can you call up Sun, or BSDI and do the same? >Yes. Mission-critical applications need to have a supported OS. And for >industry, on the net, donated help is not an option. You're telling Matt Welsh to "catch a clue"? That's pretty arrogant on your part! Your Sun support is an expensive illusion - I have found that the support on the net is not bad at all, whereas Sun support has at times seemed quite clueless... For instance - In one lab, we have a number of pentium 90s, with linux, NT, and Solaris installed. The linux machines run like a raped ape; the NT machines are, well, NT; the solaris machine? slow, buggy, and we can't get X running on it, nor NIS... calls to Sun have so far yielded nothing but slogans and promises which have yet to be fulfilled... If the managerial types want to pay someone to support linux, just look in a recent copy of linux journal - there are companies offering linux tech support for a fee - jjs -- jjs@wintermute.ucr.edu / You can't figure out how to A linux machine! because a 486 / ACCELERATE your Windoze NT box? is a terrible thing to waste! / -9.8 m/s^2 works quite well!!!