Hi Pier,
thanks for your help and your useful informations.
best regards,
Steffen
"Pier P. Fumagalli" wrote:
> Steffen Haase at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Probably I'll try to compile the sources on a Debian Linux. Normally, there
> > should be no different between Red Hat, SuSE and other Linux boxes... Which OS
> > do you use? FreeBSD or Solaris? Probably; I'll switch to FreeBSD...
>
> For development I use OS/X, and in production Solaris 8. I don't use Linux
> because of its very poor threading implementation, several bugs in the GLIBC
> and a bunch of other stuff I don't like. FreeBSD is very good from the
> reliability point of view, but although their threading implementation is
> better than Linux (on paper), it's still buggy. I'm waiting for the upcoming
> 5.0 which is supposed to work great.
>
> SunOS 5.8 (Solaris 8) is a good os, it has by far the best threading
> implementation available, it's fast as hell, and I never saw it crash, but
> it's slightly picky about hardware requirements, and if something doesn't
> work _perfectly_ it complains (a lot). So your PC must be a good one,
> especially regarding memory timings (don't mix PC100 and PC133 sims even on
> a PC100 mainboard) and hard drive. The only "problem" is that it's not fully
> open source (you can see the sources though), but it comes for free for
> anyone for any use up to 4 processors per box... It's good... I like it.
>
> Pier
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