Re: Software updates

[Robert Myers <ccrider@whiterose.net>]

Well,  I wasn;t going to chime in BUT.

*BSD is a geeks geek OS you know. ;)

Most of the true geeks I know use BSD.

Not that Linux isn;t any good mind you.  Linux is good, but BSD isn't bad
either. :)


-Bob 
ccrider@whiterose.net
Systems Administrator for whiterose.net
http://www.whiterose.net

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:

> Oh jesus... no, you DIDN'T HAVE to say it :).  Linux you dweeb ;)
> 
> On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 09:58:06AM -0400, Spencer Portee wrote:
> > ok.. ok.. I have to say it.. 2.2.7 of freebsd or of linux?  ;>
> > 
> > On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:
> > 
> > moo> Well - after reading Wade's comments - I'm almost convinced to say try
> > moo> 2.2.13.  If 2.2.12 is that bad - unless VA's patches improve the
> > moo> stability.  I have no experience with either so I can't say - all my boxes
> > moo> are still running 2.2.5, 2.2.7 and 2.0.36 :).
> > moo> 
> > moo> Jason
> > moo> 
> > moo> 
> > moo> On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 05:07:14AM -0400, Wade Hampton wrote:
> > moo> > Aaron Turner wrote:
> > moo> > > 
> > moo> > > VA has finally released (actually a few weeks ago) a more recent kernel
> > moo> > > which has a lot of performance improvements for SMP/Apache boxes.
> > moo> > I'll have to get a copy.  I had a LOT of problems with SMP recently,
> > moo> > but they seem to be fixed in the 2.2.13 pre series (I baselined
> > moo> > about a dozen systems a week or so before 2.2.13 was officially
> > moo> > released).
> > moo> > > 
> > moo> > > Anyways, on the same note, anyone have an opinion on Vodka (single
> > moo> > > PII-450)?  Anyone know if MySQL will take advantage of a 2.2.x based
> > moo> > > kernel on a single CPU system?  
> > moo> > No idea...
> > moo> > 
> > moo> > >VA included the lastest RAID patches with
> > moo> > > 2.2.12 (yes I know 2.2.13 is out, but I haven't seen a reason to try to
> > moo> > > use the VA patches on a 2.2.13 kernel).
> > moo> > My experience is that 2.2.12 is OK for UP boxes (it still has a memory
> > moo> > leak, I believe), but 2.2.12 is NOT stable for SMP.  2.2.12 also
> > moo> > has some nasty NFS lockups.  During extensive testing somewhere
> > moo> > around 2.2.13pre8, SMP became stable for me (I have 2 dual PII 300 boxes
> > moo> > and
> > moo> > 2 dual PIII/450 boxes -- all were crashing until pre8 or so and now
> > moo> > all are still running pre15 with ikd and kdb patches).
> > moo> > 
> > moo> > > Anyways, I'll be planning the kernel upgrade on Yukon and possibly Vodka.
> > moo> > > I'll give plenty of warning via email before I switch over- probably next
> > moo> > > weekend.  If anyone has any special needs/thoughts/concerns, now is the
> > moo> > > time to voice them.
> > moo> > Go for it....
> > moo> > 
> > moo> > Cheers,
> > moo> > -- 
> > moo> > W. Wade, Hampton  <whampton@staffnet.com>  
> > moo> > 
> > moo> > Linux is new, it's come out of nowhere, it's free. Hard to beat that 
> > moo> > price. And it's taking marketshare left and right.  
> > moo> > 
> > moo> > --Microsoft's lawyer, in closing argument, Bristol v. Microsoft,
> > moo> > http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/bti/07-15closing.htm
> > moo> 
> > moo> -- 
> > moo> Jason
> > moo> http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~chardros
> > moo> 
> 
> -- 
> Jason
> http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~chardros
>