Re: Wisdom of a move to Linux?

Posted in 2000

informix — Wed, 6 Dec 2000 09:12:45 -0800 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

----- Original Message ----- From: "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> To: <Dale.Spence@adpcl.co.uk>; <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 5:40 AM Subject: Re: Wisdom of a move to Linux? > From: "SPENCE Dale" <Dale.Spence@adpcl.co.uk> > > > >At risk of being flamed as an RTFM or SIOYA, and confessing to <sniparoo> > >4) Any particularly nasty holes/experiences I need to watch out for? RedHat 7.0, Mandrake 7.2 and (I'm pretty sure) Suse 7.0 all have patched kernels that allow raw device support. Maybe others. > > Not really. Raw disk and KAIO aren't currently supported, I don't think, but > will be soon. I don't think SMP support is great, but if your Dell has a > smokin' (bad choice of words, I know! :-) hot Xeon chip or chips, > performance should be pretty good. Should be able to stick a bit more RAM > in, too. :-) > > ____________________________________________________________________________ _________ > Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com