Re: M'soft CD topartners about Competing with Linux

2001-09-27 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:40:36AM +0200, Zoki wrote: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-08-23-014-20-NW-MS An excerpt from the CD: Reliability Linux is being used for simple tasks such as file/print and static web page serving. Microsoft customers are using Windows NT Server for

Re: ANNOUNCE: http://linux.nf in your native language!

2001-09-27 Thread Chang
oh no.. I introduced my colleage to visit your site. He's using Chiense Windows 98. He cannot see a thing... software. I know it's not optimal, but at least it gets us a non-english speaking person some content if they need it. _ Do

Re: M'soft CD topartners about Competing with Linux

2001-09-27 Thread Chang
Security issue is not 100% related to reliability. If your sql server is behind a good firewall, everything should just be fine. We really need some big linux shops that runs mission-critical apps. Google.com is a good example, but it's not doing accounting kind of stuffs which required

Re: reading the inode info

2001-09-27 Thread Chang
I am reading an old book called UNIX for Super-Users by E.Foxley. The chapter was about filestore. I think core meant memory, right? sticky-bit... hmm... Chang wrote: % 1. what's the standard method to list ALL 1-bit flags of a inode % (file/dir...)? Eh? I'm not following you here. Is ls -il

Re: reading the inode info

2001-09-27 Thread Kurt Wall
Chang wrote: % I am reading an old book called UNIX for Super-Users by E.Foxley. % The chapter was about filestore. % % I think core meant memory, right? sticky-bit... hmm... Yup. Sticky bit these days locks data into memory, which might be paged or swapped out. Blessed be, Kurt -- Advice

Re: gcc v3 embargo

2001-09-27 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 00:25:46 -0600 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did compile KDE2.2 with it. I have a feeling that it worked better than 2.95.3, which I used with kde2.2.1. Note one thing: gcc 3.0 added a new runtime library to the picture: libgcc.so Or some similiar name.

Re: gcc v3 embargo

2001-09-27 Thread Kurt Wall
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: % On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 00:25:46 -0600 % Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % % I did compile KDE2.2 with it. I have a feeling that it worked better than % 2.95.3, which I used with kde2.2.1. % % Note one thing: gcc 3.0 added a new runtime library to the picture: % %

Re: gcc v3 embargo

2001-09-27 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 03:55:30 -0600 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Roger Oberholtzer wrote: | % On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 00:25:46 -0600 | % Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | % | % I did compile KDE2.2 with it. I have a feeling that it worked better than | % 2.95.3, which I used with

Re: gcc v3 embargo

2001-09-27 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 23:50:14 -0600 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: stayler wrote: % Is it still stylish to embargo gcc v3 or has that tide subsided? Grab it and see for yourself. It's easy to build, although time-consuming. I'm using it here and having no problems. I haven't built the

2.4.10...

2001-09-27 Thread Jerry McBride
Just a side note, question here... I just compiled 2.4.10 for running on my test client/server setup, no problems. I enable MTRR in the kernel this time around on the client machine, as X supposedly those registers for faster screen updates if it is available. Running xfree 4.10... how does

RE: M'soft CD topartners about Competing with Linux

2001-09-27 Thread Tom Wilson
Chang wrote: [schnipp] We really need some big linux shops that runs mission-critical apps. Google.com is a good example, but it's not doing accounting kind of stuffs which required extreme precision and reliability. [schnipp] IBM converted the whole Swedish, I beleive, or maybe it was

Re: M'soft CD topartners about Competing with Linux

2001-09-27 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:12:29 -0400 Tom Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Chang wrote: | [schnipp] | We really need some big linux shops that runs mission-critical apps. | Google.com is a good example, but it's not doing accounting kind of | stuffs which required extreme precision and

Re: gcc v3 embargo

2001-09-27 Thread stayler
Good to know. I have a buddy who is running an Athlon. He seems to feel that 3.01 would fix his not being able to target Athlon on builds On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:20:04 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: It works. I just compiled 2.4.10 with it and so far so good. I don't know if the embargo is

Re: gcc v3 embargo

2001-09-27 Thread stayler
Ah. Very interesting. Thanks! On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:38:20 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: Note one thing: gcc 3.0 added a new runtime library to the picture: libgcc.so Or some similiar name. Programs compiled with 3.0 will need to have this library installed on the machines