Re: Suse Selling Out the Open Source Community. Who Will Be Next?

From: Rob Hughes (rob_at_robhughes.com)
Date: 10/21/04 

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:10:20 -0500

foamy is alleged to have said in comp.os.linux.advocacy:

> So how does it feel to watch Suse take all your hard programming work and
> run to the bank with it while dumping all the second rate crap into a
> "community desktop".

Second rate... right...

rob@fpserv:/home/rob
$uptime ; uname -a
 19:00:34 up 75 days, 21:41, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.48, 0.46
Linux fpserv.robhughes.com 2.6.6-1.435.2.3smp #1 SMP Thu Jul 1 08:36:21 EDT
2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

That box serves as a file and print server for both windows and unix boxes,
compile station, and a local apt mirror.

C:\>uptime
\\NS1 has been up for: 5 day(s), 7 hour(s), 35 minute(s), 57 second(s)

Estimate based on last boot record in the event log.
See UPTIME /help for more detail.

Guess what that box is... my primary domain controller. It's also the box
that likes to suddenly go off in the weeds and stop authenticating. Now,
this wouldn't be so bad, but *that's all it has to do, sit there and
authenticate users*. I run absolutely nothing else on it. Sad, really. It
does this about every 2-3 weeks with no warning. It just throws memory
allocation errors, even though when I ran perfmon on it until this
happened, the memory stats only showed about 300 meg usage. Fortunately,
the other DC doesn't have this problem, even though it's also an exchange
server. I gave up on it. I'll be converting both to Samba DCs and replacing
the mail server with something F/OSS, or maybe something commercial. I'm
still evaluating.

> Suckers!!!!!
> You been had!
> foamy

No, we don't believe you. Or at least I don't. I hear land is big in FL.
though. Maybe you should try that gig. 

-- 
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

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