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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news2.isp.net!ispnet!not-for-mail From: t5150@isp.net (Thomas Fritz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.osf.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.sys5.misc,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.unixware.misc,comp.unix.xenix.misc Subject: Re: Trying to research UNIX OS Date: Sat, 30 Mar 96 15:17:25 GMT Organization: Sr Unix System Admin Lines: 68 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4jjth8$8ie@isp.net> References: <Dp1KLC.398@nvc.cc.ca.us> <4jhe33$if6@earth.laitram.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sc166.isp.net NNTP-NEWS-ADMIN: newsadmin@isp.net X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:40110 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:418 comp.unix.bsd.misc:605 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2717 comp.unix.misc:21700 comp.unix.osf.misc:2983 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:9090 comp.unix.sco.misc:15663 comp.unix.solaris:64761 comp.unix.sys5.misc:962 comp.unix.ultrix:27184 comp.unix.unixware.misc:11835 comp.unix.xenix.misc:1077 In article <4jhe33$if6@earth.laitram.com>, marksu@laitram.com (Mark Sutton) wrote: >In article <Dp1KLC.398@nvc.cc.ca.us> >fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) writes: > >>I need to get a UNIX OS to replace the Linux I am currently running >>on a Pentium/100. >> >>The requirements the new OS needs to fulfill are: >> >> * Compatible with current hardware: >> Pentium/100 w/16megs RAM >> Cogent PCI Ethernet card >> BOCA 16-port board BB2016 >> * Capability to support up to 16 simultaneous PPP sessions >> * Ability to run CERN httpd for use as both HTTP server and >> Proxy/Caching sever >> * Ability to run Gated for routing and gating of IP packets >> * Ability to assign multiple IP addresses to the single Ethernet >> Interface >> >>I need to know what the pricing would be on this OS, and where I can >>purchase it from. >> >>I have been trying to use Linux 1.2.13 for a while, and it crashes >>every 2-4 days. This is completely unacceptable, and I need to get the >>OS replaced ASAP with something that can run for months at a time, not >>days. > >To answer your question, since I am reading this in an SCO group, >SCO OS5 will do what you want. You would need a 30 user license >(the next lowest is 15, and you did say 16 simultaneous PPP >sessions), which would run you $995.00 retail. Other commercial UNIX's have >similar pricing. > >However, I must comment, as someone who admin's SCO and Linux boxes, that >crashing every 2-4 days is totally abnormal. > >Two Linux boxes I administer (running 1.2.1, if anything, a tad less stable >than your 1.2.13), crash about as often as our SCO systems which is to say >.... roughly ... ALMOST NEVER! (Several months of trouble free operation from >either OS, anyway, is typical.) > >It is very likely that your problem is not the OS at all but glichy hardware, >and switching OS's would not solve your problem and simply waste your time and >money. > >(BTW, the statement "It works in DOS, so the hardware must be fine" does not >cut it. A heavily loaded multitasking kernel is much more demanding on your >hardware than DOS.) Yep! Dos is too bain dead really to detect any real hardware faults.... I hate PC Tech. folks to tell you to run DOS Diags. Most to not have a clue! --tlf >Another possibility would be something in your kernel is misconfigured. In -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -= "A little revolution now and then is a healthy thing" =- -= Thomas Jefferson ... =- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -= Thomas Fritz -=*=- t5150@isp.net =- -= Sr. UNIX System Admin. | Flames: /dev/null =- -= Resume: http://www.isp.net/~t5150/resume.html =- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-