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#! rnews 3725 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.iij.ad.jp!news.CET.CO.JP!usenet From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> 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: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 22:00:51 +0900 Organization: CET Lines: 51 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3163C803.199B@cet.co.jp> References: <Dp1KLC.398@nvc.cc.ca.us> <4jos5c$7in@gjallar.daimi.aau.dk> <4jsi80$rqr@wolfe.wimsey.com> <Dp9ouy.7qK@telly.telly.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: a07m.cet.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:40342 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:501 comp.unix.bsd.misc:655 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2832 comp.unix.misc:21861 comp.unix.osf.misc:3003 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:9143 comp.unix.sco.misc:15921 comp.unix.solaris:65316 comp.unix.sys5.misc:977 comp.unix.ultrix:27211 comp.unix.unixware.misc:11979 comp.unix.xenix.misc:1097 Evan Leibovitch wrote: > > In article <4jsi80$rqr@wolfe.wimsey.com>, > Danny Aldham <aldham@vanbc.wimsey.com> wrote: > > >:Our SCO OS 5 crashes every day so my advice is to take a look at other > >:systems before diciding to change from Linux. > > >:My intention was to go the other way and try Linux instead of SCO. > > >Really? My Linux box crashes everytime I try to run X, with a Trident > >video card. > > EMMV (Everyone's mileage may vary). > > I've had stable SCO, UnixWare and Linux boxes, and I've also has some > of all ilk that crash under this or that particular combination. > Each has its strengths. Each has its weaknesses. Different solutions > will excel for different problems. They key is flexibility. I've been running UnixWare, BSDI, and Linux. BSDI has been giving me 6 month uptimes or more. BSDI also has a superior TCP/IP implementation and it seems to be a major factor in why gets such good performance running Internet servers such as WWW and INN. Other nice things are the definable user classes, where you can specify alternative stronger authentication methods, different resource limits, etc. for different classes of users. It would be doing more here if it had SMP support, a better MMAP implementation, and more third party software support. UnixWare seems to be a better multi-user host and I have more trust in its filesystem. Linux is a nice economical desktop Unix and fun to hack. I couldn't passup the Solaris developer bundle so I'll be giving it a shot on an Intel box. Unix Review wrote an article saying that Sun has finally started understanding the PC and this incarnation is a lot snappier than previous versions. It also comes with the CDE. Please don't send me mail asking where to get it, call 1-800-GET-UNIX. Has anyone done a network performance comparison between Solaris and UnixWare? Sun has been saying the "Network is the computer" for what seems like more than decade. You get the feeling that SCO and Novell USG were behind the times when it comes to the quality and features of their TCP/IP implementation. Different priorities I guess. It does seem that they are stepping up their efforts here, but I wonder what kind of steps they are taking. Do they pay Legent/Lachman enough? Does Legent/Lachman still have the 'minds' who are up to the task? -mh