Lee Brown wrote:

>Linux on the other hand has helped push the Open Source initiative - great for developers on the leading edge, but at the expense of the end-user I think.
>

The thing with linux is the developers are the end-users, which is why
all the techo/research stuff got there first, but the techo/research
people also want to play their dvd's and read their word documents as
well, and business has started using linux (its a simple cost thing both
for supplier hp etc and user) so it's getting there.

Personally I get much better support for linux than I ever got from
microsoft (and I was in some big projects), and microsoft has a dozen
operating systems as well.

My opinion, is linux now is as ready for the user market as windows has
ever been (remember windows has real problems too, just think registry
and trying to install upgrades or dll versions, reinstall after hard
disk failure etc).

Linux became ready for the desktop with the office equivalents like
staroffice - I never use word/excel anymore. Windows which I run now
only on a vmware version is only for testing.

But linux just doesn't have market share - yet.

:-).

Cheers

Mark

>
>Regards,
>Lee Brown
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Schmidt [mailto:paul@...]
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 12:44
> To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [ib-support] Re: New Firebird Release 1.0.0 Beta2 Available
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> Sean:
>
> On 23 Aug 2001, at 8:15, Leyne, Sean wrote:
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> > Alexander,
> >
> > > Does it mean I must to keep myself from joining large splitted
> > > database into one file on Red Hat 6.2 just now?
> >
> > Yes!
> >
> > In fact with Red Hat 6.2, you won't *ever* be able to use the 64bit
> > I/O support.
> >
> >
> > Both the OS and the filing systems don't support for large files.
> >
>
> RH 6.2 and 64bit, it needs a compatible kernel, the standard one may
> be too old, probably best to go to one of the kernel sites and get
> the 2.4 kernel tarball. Follow the included directions exactly, it
> may suggest updating glibc or the compiler to a newer one, trust the
> directions, and make the updates. Then go to www.namesys.com and get
> the latest rieserfs patches, and apply those. This should give him
> the ability to create a 64bit file system, then try it and see if it
> works, let the rest of us know.
>
> It's not impossible, it's just harder to do, it's possible to take a
> Slackware 1.0 installation from 1994, and by continually updating
> bits and pieces since then, have a very modern and usable system.
> Some of those updates would be rather nasty (the conversion from
> a.out to elf comes to mind, because it meant updating libraries that
> were in use).
>
> Installing a new version, in fact is often harder to do, because all
> the nice little customizations you have done to the old system get
> lost.
>
> Paul
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> Paul Schmidt,
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