>> Nothing much, he's been on vacation.
 >> And the malfunction is a pretty regular occurrence. Linux isn't 
 >>perfect.

 >  What have majordomo problems got to do with Linux???
 >That's like saying every time Arachne crashes, it's the
 >fault of DOS.

Well, majordomo is pretty stupid piece of software. It suddenly decided 
to refuse to work with group writable files - but the group was "mail", 
with only user "mail" being in group "mail". Pretty interesting 
situation. Sorry for ignoring the problem for so long, but I was on 
vacation, and then I had to deal with floods somehow (although I was not 
in danger, there were many other things to do). My two employees are 
really not top-class Linux admins and most of they manage is to answer 
phone calls by customers by our webhosting service. I solved the problem 
more or less randomly...

On the other hand, it is correct to say that Linux is not perfect. Linux 
is bunch of free software of various quality. Most of software is pretty 
stable and reliable, but hard to setup. End user applications are often 
less stable then Windows stuff, but they take advantage of ultra-robust 
Linux kernel, which doesn't let them to cause much damage to other 
running apps. This makes the difference.

Linux consists of kernel, shell, system applications, GUI/desktop tools 
and user applications, either intended for server use (Apache, 
Majordomo, Sendmail...) or desktop use (GIMP...)

Imagine Linux kernel to be replacement of MSDOS.SYS + IO.SYS. which is 
maintained by Linus Thorwalds "last true popstar" around ;-), and which 
is probably the best open source kernel around. It is suitable rather 
for servers, than for workstations, but results are pretty good for most 
desktop work too. It doesn't contain built-in GUI - like other Unix 
operating systems. Alternative to Linux would be FreeBSD, which is more 
secure, stable and mature, but generaly supports much less choice of 
hardware and therefore is suitable mainly for servers (and for most 
advanced unix admins.)

Shell, /bin/bash, is replacement for COMMAND.COM. Unix shell is 
definitely the most powerful command-line tool on this planet. If you 
liked DOS commands (I never did ;-), you would be amazed what you can do 
with Bash (I am rather forced to learn it, but I must admit it is 
powerful tool). I use Midnight Commander (mc) instead of Bash most of 
the time, which is powerful replacement to Norton/Volkov/Dos Navigator....

System tools in Linux came mainly from GNU project, and they are 
de-facto standard even in commercial Unix world (which slowly disappears 
anyway).

GUI in Linux is optional, and consists of X11 system, and various 
"window managers" or desktops (you can choose KDE, which by default 
looks more like Windows, and GNOME, which tries to look like MacOS by 
default, but doesn't). It can be compared to content of "C:\Windows" 
directory, if your are Linux newbie. X11 is much better than Windows, 
but unfortunately also slower, because unlike Win32 API, it is not 
integrated into kernel.

So saying that Majordomo problems are Linux problems is true - it is 
problem of "Arachne Linux" distribution, which slowly starts to exist on 
its own (basicaly our own set of tools and upgrades we install on top of 
RedHat...)

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