Re: [SLE] Real World

jfweber_at_bellsouth.net
Date: 10/31/04

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    Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:16:21 -0500
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    *** Reply to message from "Aaron Bridge" <a.bridge@insightbb.com> on
    Sun, 31 Oct 2004 10:34:09 -0500***

    > Is anyone using 9.x pro for any mission critical situations? How have
    > they been performing? Is Microsoft mixed in also?

    yeah, my husband runs his entire consulting business as well as the
    stuff he does as a pro futbal ( Soccer) ref ( U.S Emeritus, for anyone
    who cares <g>) And teh editorials etc he does for some of the magazines
    etc. etc/

    The only MS is coutesy of Crossover Office, which he has reported on...
    I don't have any MS on any of my own nets.. and since I'm part owner of
    the biz it gives me an edge on other IT techs who have to go 'cap in
    hand' to the suits... Still, I tend to wander on the bleeding edge a
    lot, and so far none of the stuff he does has been lost do to anything
    that Suse has done... and we truely can't say that about the MS
    software ..

    And if you want a really "interesting time" try having a 3day install
    fest, no time outs, barring the one or two hours you nod off w/ your
    eyes open FINALLY getting to bed, and just 30 min into your sleep cycle
    you hear someone screaming that the computer has eaten whatever article
    it is that is on deadline.!! One of MS's worms did that to him when he
    was first testing to see if he could even use Linux as opposed to the
    w2k , which already had spit an orb disk out at his head when he hit
    the 'go" button in his MS software backup .

    The email came in and the worm didn't even need him to open or preview
    IIRC... and it "apparently" rewrote the fat table, and it definately
    forced a reboot... and when it rebooted the box thought it was too
    small a drive to even install a dos5 OS on!! Took 9 hours to get him
    back to where he had been two weeks prior.

    He never used that OS since, except in situations like we had last week
    where at a conference no one had a linux box setup ( hence the new
    search for some sort of lappy , er laptop ) Although if I had the 9.2
    live eval I might just have been tempted. <very evil grin> after all
    the thing was all in my custody, and I could have rebooted w/o any
    problems. In fact I did reboot it once.. ( yeah, I had to but didn't
    have the Suse disk w/ me<sigh> ) 

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