Very Computer

"Our testing showed that our Linux system was indeed ready"

http://www.idg.net.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/ECC4743A6E460FAFCC256BC2007F70...

yet another success story for Linux down under.

Matthew Gardiner

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> yet another success story for Linux down under.

> Matthew Gardiner

Do they know there is this peculiar file???
/usr/src/linux/arch/m68k/fpsp040/satan.S

        Florian

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> > yet another success story for Linux down under.

> > Matthew Gardiner

> Do they know there is this peculiar file???
> /usr/src/linux/arch/m68k/fpsp040/satan.S

You wouldn't happen to be 'Florian Schneider'
as in Kraftwerk, would you?

Quote:>         Florian
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That is the name of a company in NZ.  Nothing to do with religion...

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> > yet another success story for Linux down under.

> > Matthew Gardiner

> Do they know there is this peculiar file???
> /usr/src/linux/arch/m68k/fpsp040/satan.S

>         Florian

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Quote:>> Do they know there is this peculiar file???
>> /usr/src/linux/arch/m68k/fpsp040/satan.S

> You wouldn't happen to be 'Florian Schneider'
> as in Kraftwerk, would you?

No.
But I read the name "Christchurch" just felt like pointing out this file :)
Now learned that its a company and has nothing to do with religion... :)

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Quote:> >> Do they know there is this peculiar file???
> >> /usr/src/linux/arch/m68k/fpsp040/satan.S

> > You wouldn't happen to be 'Florian Schneider'
> > as in Kraftwerk, would you?

> No.
> But I read the name "Christchurch" just felt like pointing out this file
:)
> Now learned that its a company and has nothing to do with religion... :)

Oh, I knew that! I was just wondering if you *were* that guy...

Ciao.

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'as_setprot' heuristic gave my process a wedgie.

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"There were some concerns raised about whether Linux was ready
to deliver a system of this scale and criticality. Initial
challenges were encountered in compiling a suitable kernel and
supporting software. Benchmark performance tests were carried
out with NetBench to verify system performance and to compare
against the same hardware running Windows 2000 Server. Our
testing showed that our Linux system was indeed ready."

... that goes without saying :) ...

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LOL. How about Fox Town, would tux be safe there? ;)

Matthew Gardiner

Well, you only need to look at the management of the companies. Tait
electronic CEO, Sir Tait, is not only a manager, but also works on the
production line, development section and is always interested in new
technologies. Oh, if you were wondering, he is around 65-70 years of
age.

Matthew Gardiner

Matthew Gardiner

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"Tait Electronics infrastructure manager Barry Ireland thinks the firm may
have one of the biggest Linux installations in the country, running 500
Windows users over about 400 active Samba sessions on a Linux Red Hat
server."

I'm still surprised that one of the largest Linux installations in New
Zealand is a single Redhat box.

Yeah,  see...

Windows servers just simply can't handle this kind of load without
very special hardware and regular church services.

And as time goes on, this gap between Windows servers and Linux servers
just get's wider as Windows get's slower as they mound more pounds of
FAT code in their kernel and Linux get's leaner and more thready as
we see with this new 2.5X development tree.

The Linux 2.4 kernel was a quantum improvement over the 2.2 series.  
The 2.6 kernel is planned to have better performance than the 2.4 has.

Windows doesn't have any sort of progressive record like that.

It's not like fine wine.  It doesn't get better with age.

Charlie

Datagram from Florian S. incoming on netlink socket

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Quote:>> yet another success story for Linux down under.

>> Matthew Gardiner

> Do they know there is this peculiar file???
> /usr/src/linux/arch/m68k/fpsp040/satan.S

Yup there is. And here's one space saving trick:

You can save ~38Megs from Linux kernel source tree by deleting
unused arch specific directories. Patch may barf when you patch the
partial tree, but otherwise, it will work.

So if you don't use M68000, you can quite safely delete the file.

-Ilari
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  1:14pm  up 10 days, 14:08,  4 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

No point in doing that for me since I allmost daily download the
development kernels / patches.

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