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In a previous article, patrick@junior.apk.net (Patrick Lewis) says:

>: Not to mention half the things it doesnt compile..
>
>	I agree wholeheartedly; I have used both Slackware '96 and
>	RedHat 3.0.3 and I have to spend a pretty fair amount of
>	time hacking code to get a few pieces of "common" software
>	to compile. (Namely elm, irc-2.8, tin, tf, etc.) 
>	All of those pieces of software compiled out-of-the-"box"
>	with FreeBSD.
>
All of those things come "already compiled" with Slackware and Redhat.

>	Linux is a great developer's OS because of the fact that all
>	the code is shipped for it and it's on an open-development
>	basis.  As NACS and many other ISP's and businesses have
>	proven, it can be used commercially; however, you have to be
>	very familiar with Linux and C in order to do a lot of 
>	things with it. 
>

I installed  2.5 at my previous job... it took like an hour. I took a
nap on the floor. Of course, it shipped with no compilers, no extra
programs of any sort, etc.

Now, if you want to drop all that money on a commercial OS that does
little or nothing... more power to you. When I think of all the time and
effort I put into that Sun... compiling PIne... compiling Perl..
installing Netscape... administering that Sun was very time consuming.

While I waited and waited for various things to ship to us from Sun, I
installed Slackware 3.0 on a spare 486, and plowed ahead. I set up a
backup web server. I wrote an administrative system for the librarians
in CGI and HTML. Everything was a snap.

Linux is a broken, unreliable OS? Let's look at the DNS I set up:

Last login: Fri Oct 11 17:36:37 from 206.183.14.115
Linux 1.1.59. (POSIX).
mail:~$ uptime
  4:00pm  up 181 days,  9:48,  1 user,  load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00
mail:~$

I accidentally typed "shutdown" into the wrong window one day and
rebooted it... otherwise the uptime would show it running nonstop since
October of 1995.


And that's on older version of Slackware!

We also had a CDROM tower with a scsi card that I was able to make
useful again because there was a compatible Linux driver. try that with
a Sun.

Steve Wainstead

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