Re: Linux (was RE: Will Upgrading to V4R5 impact performance???)

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Wed, 10 October 2001, James Rich wrote:
>
> > Well I consider linux enterprise-level.  I guess it
> depends on what
> > "enterprise-level" means.  Running on S/390 I think
> qualifies.
>

The term "Enterprise Level" is pretty vague, but I have a
general idea of what it means to me.  I would not call Linux
Enterprise Level, not just yet.  Maybe in a year or two.

I've been using Linux for the past couple years just on my
home network.  Not for "enterprise" solutions.  And it's
still a little buggy.

Well, maybe it's not Linux, but the apps I use (mostly
network sharing apps) and they are buggy.  reboots are
necessary at least once every 2 days for my internet sharing
to work.

Also, each distro seems to have their own little bugs.  For
example, mandrak 7.1 and lower had a huge logging problem
that you wouldn't notice for a month or two.  It would
archive logs and end up looping exponentially the more logs
that were there.  Luckily a fix as fairly easy to find.

Also, the documentation has a little to be desired,
especially the man pages.  I know we all joke about IBM's
docs, but I'd take them over Linux docs anyday.  But I find
similararities in these docs and other apps such as Apache
and Tomcat.  The only positive is the internest is full of
discussions where you can find more information on the
subjects.

See you all at COMMON at the MC-Press booth!  :)

Brad
www.bvstools.com