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Subject: Re: linux issues

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 20:40:45 05/27/02

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On May 27, 2002 at 18:09:25, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On May 26, 2002 at 15:06:35, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>Yeah Christophe, we share the same viewpoint,
>but what this guy says is true. With the linux
>nerds you gotta be very careful, they are willing
>to start a holy war for it and will hate you rest
>of their life.


I'm well aware of this attitude and I mentionned that it is a handicap for
Linux.

That was the idea behind my "call for new blood".





>I can tell you, despite using both OSes, i am
>much hated in both a windows channel saying linux
>was better in this, and i was completely banned
>out of the linux channel in IRC, when i showed a small
>thing i hated in linux. I was discussing their lack
>to fix the shared memory bugs in linux, like it
>doesn't give back the memory to the system, but
>crashes a machine instead if you control-c diep a
>few times :)
>
>Bob smartly solved this with a script that removes
>automatically the shared memory. And i still owe him
>a lot for getting out of bed in the middle of th enight
>and driving to the university, in order to reboot the
>machine, after i control-ced diep twice (2 x 400MB = 800MB
>so that crashes the kernel when the main memory is
>512MB) :)
>
>Just mentionning that they should simply implement in
>kernel what is in the 'man' pages (the _anonymous memory
>flag isn't implemented in linux, which forced me to
>use shmat/shmget functions which can crash the kernel)
>this is enough to start a holy war against a person
>if the persons in questions are linux nerds :)
>
>Bad news means signing your own death sentence.
>
>Thing is, that with all those small things which clever
>guys like Bob can fix without thinking, it is pretty
>much for the average user.
>
>But may i remind you that linux is now the fastest OS
>for diep?
>
>(of course i know i said it wrong again: GCC is fastest
>compiler for me but as it runs under linux, and it
>doesn't run for me under windows as god knows how to
>cross compile it, this means it's fastest OS for me).


By how much? 1, 2, 5 or 10%?

That doesn't count much in the choice of an OS.

But naturally if your program can run on both OSes, then just pick the one that
gives better performance...



    Christophe



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