Giving up on Linux...

[Tom Needs a Hat Mitchell]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 09:57:00PM -0500, James Drabb wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 10:28, xyzzy at hotpop.com wrote:
> > Well, these particular issues (SMP system lockup, etc...) are all over 
> > Bugzilla with nary a fix in sight after quite a long time.  I also HAVE 
> > posted here with my problem and got redirected to these same bug reports.
> 
> You do know that Fedora is meant more as a development playground?  It
> is not built to be your average stable Linux.  I have Red Hat AS running
> on many SMP boxen at the fortune 500 I am a senior programmer at and
> they are rock solid.  I also read that SGI has Linux up to 64-way. 
> Linux does SMP very well.

   http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2003/august/128processors.html

   http://www.sgi.com/pdfs/3623.pdf   (512 experiment at NASA. [2.3.2004])

In fact there was a notice to the open source (Linux) community a
number of years back where a 512p MIPS MP  box was running Linux
internally (the lab machine was called 'stinger').


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