OpenEuphoria

Re: Backups

• Posted by Martin Stachon <martin.stachon at worldonline.cz> Mar 29, 2002
• 381 views

Euman wrote:
> Try running Linux on a i486 processor.
>     * SLOW, SLOW and way SLOW *

It depends on how clever are you with configuring...
yes I've seen 486/25 webserver booting in several mins, but
Win NT/2000 wouldn't be any faster - Linux has better caching
etc. I agree that is difficult to configure all the daemons etc.

> Not to mention you have to keep recompiling the kernel 
> for everychange you make to your system.

Not everytime - if you compile the drivers as modules, you
can even put them in/out during run of the system.

> Some people say that Linux is more stable and hardly crashes and I 
> say that when it does make a mistake it doesnt let you know until you
> cant boot the O/S anymore.

Watch logs - I redirected kernel messages to /dev/tty12 so I can see them
easily...
It is generally good idea to not use the hottest kernel version because
of possible bugs (currently the 2.5.x tree) - recently 2.4.11 and 2.4.14
had some filesystem Oopses (I like the name - better than Windows' 
"Possibly you might continue properly" [Cz->En]), but the kernels put
into distributions are well tested (Debian is usually the most conservative)

    Martin

(I am not a Linux GURU at all, but my dream is to once have a line in the
kernel,
difficult to do with Euphoria, isn't it? Oh, EuOS)