Giving up on Linux...

[Mark]

I know of two Fortune 100 companies that do.  RHEL w/ PeopleSoft running 
on the 2.6 kernel.

Peter Morris wrote:

>On Sunday 22 Feb 2004 11:57 am, xyzzy at hotpop.com wrote:
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>>On Sunday 22 February 2004 1:12 pm, Jos Vos wrote:
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>>>On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 12:52:16PM +0200, xyzzy at hotpop.com wrote:
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>>>>I use Linux at work... I am a kernel hacker at work.  That is my job.
>>>>Redhat 9 works for me at work because the motherboard is not completely
>>>>state of the art.
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>>>Right, and state of the art MB's, notebooks etc. indeed do not always
>>>(completely) work.  So, unfortunately, we as Linux users have to be
>>>very careful when buying such hardware.  *Always* do some research
>>>*before* buying HW.
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>>Thus, Linux stays as a hobbyist/hacker system for the desktop.
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>Nope, I do not know of ANY major corporation that uses bleeding edge kit
>to support their business.
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>Servers are always at least 1-2 steps back from the edge.
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>You want stable, not really FAST...
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>Also, I am running an Intel dual pentium3 SMP system here, with no problems 
>and uptime (at the moment) of about 43 days. That was when I transplanted it 
>into a new case, and I think it was up for over 100 days before that.
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>My other box used to run w2k, but this was moved to a fedora Core1 box 
>recently when I got sick of the worms... :-(
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>I am sorry that you have had problems, and I can understand your frustration.
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>You have stated that you do not need confirmation, or commiseration.
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>Just exactly what do you want?
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>Use what works for you. :-)
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