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Re: Dark side of linux (against)



In article <cistron.Pine.LNX.3.96.991109111716.13381A-100000@gateway.targonia.com>,
David Bristel  <targon@targonia.com> wrote:
>
>On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Phillip Neumann wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 12:49:32 -0300
>> From: Phillip Neumann <max@julia.dhis.org>
>> To: debian@murphy.debian.org
>> Subject: Dark side of linux (against)
>> Resent-Date: 9 Nov 1999 16:00:32 -0000
>> Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
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>> Hello,
>> 
>> This is more a linux questoin that a debian one.. but anyway...   
>> 
>> I had some time now for playing with linux in general, so i know some of the
>> pros that this OS does offer to the users. But i just know 1 side of the
>> coin...  im wondering what is agains linux?
>The one major problem is the 2 GB max file size limit, which keeps large 
>databases from being able to run on a Linux platform.  It is especially annoying
>that no effort has been made to resolve this issue.

A *lot* of effort has been made to resolve this issue. I take it
you didn't read the last few 2.3.x patches? LFS support has been
folded into 2.3.x and will be part of 2.4.

Mike.
-- 
First things first, but not necessarily in that order.


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