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Re: My first question on Debian



Aryan Ameri <a.ameri@linuxiran.org> writes:

> On Monday 19 May 2003 19:53, Alfredo Valles wrote:
>
>> The Hurd is the drog of gnu people (The Hurd is a new and "perfect"
>> kernel they are developing for some time now).
>
> Well it depends on what you call perfect. I personally wouldn't call a 
> kernel which has been in alpha stage for 10 years, and can not still 
> run a single usefull application, perfect.

I've personnaly used it and it runs emacs, apache, ssh, X, gimp,
mplayer (no sound...), etc. But yeah it's not perfect.

> Perfect in my opinion is the solaris kernel, if it was licenes under GNU 
> GPL, I would have switched overnight.
>
> Ever had tha hard disk fail on your server? and in Solaris/Sparc, simply 
> remove the defected hard disk and add a new one. Without a single 
> reboot or interference in work. *That* I call near perfect.

Solaris is often called Slowlaris. Not without reason. I have a couple
of old Sun workstations at work, and I installed Debian on them.

Also does Solaris provide this on Intel hardware!? I really don't
think so. If any of the hard disks fail on my intel computers I just
replace it with a cheap IDE disk. The SCSI disks in my sun computers
are probably worth more than the rest of the old computers themselves.

Bijan



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