Re: Flintstone Linux.

From: TehGhodTrole (nospam_at_rainx.cjb.net)
Date: 12/03/03 

Date: Wed,  3 Dec 2003 03:48:36 -0800 (PST)

The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Kadaitcha Man
> <nospam@rainx.cjb.net>
> wrote
> on Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:10:11 -0800 (PST)
> <QPl0sHfDvisw0B4324E7zjnQYSypWzyc@win.wwiinn.com>:
>> Nate McSorley wrote:
>>
>>> It crawls along on an Abit Pentium 3 gigahurtz board with 2g of DDR
>>> dual channel ram.
>>> I am using SUSE 9.0 as if it matters at all because Redhat sucked
>>> even more.
>>
>> I am using Mandrake 9.1 on a dual 2.8GHz Xeon system with 2GB of
>> registered dual channel DDR and it runs, well, not quite like
>> treacle on a cold day, but it is far from snappy. I put it down to
>> linux perpetually computing uptime so the linuxfux have something to
>> brag about.
>>
>
> Why not put WinXP Professional or Server on that system
> so that it'll zip along and do what you want, then?
>
> Is there a reason you need Linux on that box?

I wanted to see if I could get it to work on my rig. I achieved my
objective, but had to rip out two of my three video cards to do it. My BIOS
is excellent. It allows me to configure disks at will, so I just chose one
of my backup disks, nominated it in the BIOS as disk 0 and installed linux
on it. LILO was totally unaware of the other OSes on any of the other three
disks. Plus, it's easier for me to reboot, tell the boot manager to set disk
3 as disk 0 with a few keystrokes, then run linux, than it is to swivel my
office chair and wake up the screen of one of my two servers.

I used to run server 2003 but took it off once I had Apache and 602Pro
LanSuite running. Now I run only Pro because Apaches allow me to bypass the
major limitations in the number of simultaneous web connections allowed
under XP Pro, and 602Pro got around the problem of Pro not having a freaking
POP3 service. Once I had them running, I just moved them to another machine.

If you're not sure where that is all headed, I'm driving to the point that
Microsoft are greedy cunts and should be broken up, just as bell was. It's
funny watching a lot of the linuxfux spin themselves around on that one. I
prefer XP as my OS of choice but certainly have no love at all for MS, their
shithouse security, or their totally off-the-wall patch and hope approach to
quality control.

As for the linux, it will stay for a while. I'll take a look at its innards
one day, see if I can remember how to use vi from my Unix days, maybe even
play around with rm -rf / while logged in as root. 

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