Rick Warner said: > <snip> > The handling of the filesystem in Netware is probably still among the > best for performance of any alternative. Using all free memory for file > cache along with hashing and the elevator seeks really ramps up the > performance. At some point in time it would be great if all that stuff > got rev'd into some OSS offering. Ah - so now I know who to blame for this PITA idea in Linux :-) Every morning when I sit down in front of my RH desktop, it spends a few minutes swapping each desktop app I use back into memory, so I've finally got to the stage where I just click on a few things and walk away and come back later! (Athlon 1600+ 512MB RAM) I just wish there was an easy way to tell Linux that this computer is mainly a desktop - not a server - so I don't have everything swapped out I guess that would also mean that applications would need to identify their role - e.g. desktop vs server - so maybe that is too much to ask for :-) :-) - but it would be better. I guess you could tune the machine by removing anything and everything that could possible cause this - but that seems a bit excessive for a desktop - that's server work - not home desktop OTOH this works great for my 5 servers - but it's a pain for the one desktop. My 2nd desktop ... well we'll skip that discussion ... :-) > I think it is time for folks to take a chill pill, work with vendors > like Novell who are willing to try to fund a commercially viable Linux > based offering. Linux has benefited greatly from the likes of IBM and > RedHat. There have been a lot of good ideas that have died because of > lack of financial support during critical periods. So - how does a GPL idea die unless the idea is no good? If it really is GPL - then anyone can take it up and keep it alive. Maybe the problem was the license used that killed these projects you are talking about? > I think that it > would be more advantageous to try to work with Novell than for folks to > be naysayers and to bash them. > > - rick However, if eveything I have read of late is close to true regarding Novell - I'm certainly happy that they appear to be heavily into the Linux market. -- -Cheers -Andrew MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding! -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
