This is another bold assumption! You obviously haven't the slighest inkling of what makes a kernel "good" for use as a server. Linux didn't even provide a reasonably good polling mechanism or native POSIX threads until the 2.6 series. To be fair, I'm fairly certain Apache still implements a _WAY_ outdated and inefficient prefork model that handles one client per process. That doesn't exactly make it a "good" server, either.
My intention is not to criticize Linux, it has come a long way and the movement it has driven has, at least in part, resulted in some interesting software works. Even the various desktop projects have made significant strides over the past few years. But you have to remember, a significant number of the "latest and greatest" features that you see in these projects are just duplicating functionality that has existed in other operating systems for years. And sometimes rather poorly. I realize that this is a Linux user group list, and expect a high level of advocacy when it comes to your favorite operating system. Notwithstanding, it is important that you consider that popularlity does not always indicate something is better. You should especially not make disparaging remarks about other operating systems if your knowledge doesn't go further than "people talk about Linux on Slashdot a lot." Nathan: as you may have noticed, this is a Linux user group list. I would advise you to find a MacOSX support list to make such inquiries to in the future. Assuming you compiled the Apache server from source, I would advise you to try doing it using darwinports or by downloading one of the precompiled packages that fink provides. Thank you On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 21:12:08 -0600, Andrew Graupe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And that's why, if linux isn't the best for the desktop, it is still a > better choice for servers. And I think desktop will catch up with OS X > sometime. > -- Regards, Cade Cairns _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
