Re: My Annual Linux Adventure
From: Leythos (void_at_nowhere.org)
Date: 11/08/04
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Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 02:40:00 GMT
In article <xLidneagN5gwThPcRVn-pQ@comcast.com>, wm5z@comcast.net
says...
> I have to agree that flaming is out of hand on most groups. However, I
> would like to differ with you on the point that M$ is stable.
Please, before you think I'm a troll, keep in mind that I've been
working with computers since 76, designed motherboards for a lot of
processors you've probably never known about, write code in a bunch of
languages, and used about every database you have read about. I have no
want for flame wars, and I have no desire to get into OS pissing
contests, but I would like people to be honest and not into hype.
Let me describe my computer experience and setups:
I have 12 workstations, two laptops, and 8 servers running Windows
platform software in my home, and many more in my office. The
workstations are all XP Pro SP2 (one is Windows 2000), the laptops are
also XP Pro SP2 (and have spare drives running NT and 2000), and the
servers are 1 = NT4, 4 are Windows 2000 Standard Server, and 3 are
Windows 2003 Advanced Server. The laptops have multiple drives so that I
can have multiple setups for each laptop. The one laptop is a Compal
P3/600 with 512mb and runs very stable, the second laptop is a new
Toshiba S526 that I wiped and installed XP Pro Sp2 the day I bought it -
the install was painless and the drivers XP that came with the unit was
actually very nice to use. I run MSDE or full SQL 2000 Server on all
systems, run Visual Studio .Net 2003 or 2005 on all workstations and
laptops, MySql, PHP, IIS, Macromedia Studio 2004 Prof, Office 2003 Prof,
DVD+/-RW drives and software, PageMaker 6.5, Photoshop 6, Symantec
Corporate Edition SBE AV software, and many other apps. Not one fault,
BSOD, reboot needed except for some service packs that require it as
needed. The servers have months of Up Time each, only rebooted due to
Service Packs again, if not for SP installs the servers would have more
than a year of up time each. I use most of the mentioned software every
day of the week, as do most of my team.
One other thing - I design networks and office systems based on MS
solutions, and none of the clients experience anything like you mention.
Machines are up and running 24/7/365 with reboots for service packs
only. They don't have problems during the day.
If Windows was as unstable as many Linux preachers say, it wouldn't be
that common in the work place, businesses could not afford it.
I also have two Dual CPU machines for testing various Linux installs on,
SUSE 9.1, Mandrake 10.0, and I'm trying to find a version of RH that I
can install also for testing.
I used the Compal P3 to test a SUSE 9.1 distro on first, it was
painless, worked fine from the start. It took me a couple hours to get
R/W permission on my 2000 server shares, but it was nice. After running
a update for 9.1 a couple days later, all of my permissions went back to
Read-Only when accessing my 2000 server shares. The good news was that
SAMBA worked now, and I could fix it. I was up and running, editing
documents, getting a Usenet feed with PAN, and doing email - but I could
not make use of my Excahnge server like I do with Outlook 2003 (full
exchange features). I tried CrossOver, it let me load Office XP Prof,
but I could not get Outlook XP to connect to the Exchange server no
matter what I tried). Printing worked great - I love Post Script anyway.
Next, I have a couple systems with exact same hardware configs, tested
them with SUSE and XP Prof Sp2 to determine performance - Suse lost in
GUI performance, but did some things faster from the command line. I did
not see a hands-down winner.
I also did this same thing with MDK 10, it wasn't near as easy as SUSE
was, and KDE would not run at all - I found the video config file and
edited it (was setup as some strange resolution settings - I set it to
1024x768) and it worked. MDK 10 is a lot different that SUSE 9.1, things
are not in the same place. I ran out of time, could not configure Apache
2, and decided to wait for another day.
Maybe you can suggest a good RH Distro for me to test. I need to be able
to run Apache and MySQL on a Dual CPU system, it needs to support AIT
tape drives in general, must be stable (so it doesn't have to be the
latest distro) and I will need to be able to find publications on it to
help me when I come across a problem (something I didn't find with MDK
or SUSE at the local or on-line book stores - but I did find a zillion
RH books). It must be able to access Windows 2000 server shares without
any problems.
I'm also looking at a Windows desktop replacement OS that can be managed
by people that know nothing about computers - you know the type, they
think that AOL is the internet and click on email's that are full of
viruses. I need to be able to push a OS/Platform out to people that have
no clue, as home users, that don't know anything, that can still use
their computer to do surfing, email, edit MS Office documents without
any hassle, and to use most CHEAP printers and digital cameras - and to
burn CD/DVD's.
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