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WOW. Dan, can you send that to Wired or PC Magazine or something as an editorial? My goodness, I'm reading this saying, 'yes, yes, YES!'. I couldn't agree with any of this more. When I used Solaris several years ago, we didn't have the 8GB partition problem. But, OTOH, yes, Linux bugfixes can be frustrating; but on the other hand, I have never had a problem with my website. I do agree Linux is slower than Solaris---hands down by 10%+. But then again, it can still do so much more than a Solaris box...and much more cheaply. And as Dan said, trying to find help? Unless you're a Solaris guru, good luck. I saw that first hand with our old Geography dept. admin. Things haven't improved, and that's not good for the future of Solaris and related products. I can still say while Linux may not be the greatest OS in the world (dunno what is, don't care)...the most important thing is that it is very good, and still improving, in general. I do wish they would stop piling on add-ons that you don't need...but I think that options will also come to pass in future versions. 3rd party software? Give me Redhat for everything weather and a Windows box to type up my forecast on an Excel spreadsheet. I think we can we all agree, though, that Solaris and Linux toast Windows 95-98-2000 out of the water! Let's see THAT OS handle a 4 channel NOAAport feed! :-) Anyway, we'll find out tonight how stable Anne's patches are to the LDM, but from what I can gather, the thing that was making my machine crash is no longer interfering with my machine. But, until a good patch can be released, don't upgrade to RedHat 7.1 yet. BTW, McIDAS under 7.1 works fine, except my ADDE server suddenly stopped working from those people trying to get data from me. I think it's back up again...will check. ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** Internet: gilbert@xxxxxxx (My opinions only!) ****** Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** E-mail: sebenste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx *** web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** Work phone: 815-753-5492 * *******************************************************************************
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