On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Chris Smith wrote:
>
> 4. A tie between Linux and Novell -- Novell sucks but is supported for use
> with this particular hardware that I'm teaching; Linux doesn't suck quite
> as much, but it has no support.
>
This is clearly FUD. Check out Red Hat, Caldera, ADK Computer,
linux-newbie, comp.os.linux.*, and others.
> I talked to someone a few weeks ago who described a system he just sold --
> 5 minutes of down time costs this customer about $500,000. That means that
> the 33 minute fsck costs about 3.3 million dollars. Do *you* want to tell
> this person that fsck is tolerable?
>
Um, can you say, UPS, and "maintainence"? If proper amounts of both are
given, the chances of an fsck are almost NONE, in my experience and that
of *MY* clients. I don't know about anyone else...
>
> Chris Smith
>
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