Steffen Haase at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Probably I'll try to compile the sources on a Debian Linux. Normally, there
> should be no different between Red Hat, SuSE and other Linux boxes... Which OS
> do you use? FreeBSD or Solaris? Probably; I'll switch to FreeBSD...
For development I use OS/X, and in production Solaris 8. I don't use Linux
because of its very poor threading implementation, several bugs in the GLIBC
and a bunch of other stuff I don't like. FreeBSD is very good from the
reliability point of view, but although their threading implementation is
better than Linux (on paper), it's still buggy. I'm waiting for the upcoming
5.0 which is supposed to work great.
SunOS 5.8 (Solaris 8) is a good os, it has by far the best threading
implementation available, it's fast as hell, and I never saw it crash, but
it's slightly picky about hardware requirements, and if something doesn't
work _perfectly_ it complains (a lot). So your PC must be a good one,
especially regarding memory timings (don't mix PC100 and PC133 sims even on
a PC100 mainboard) and hard drive. The only "problem" is that it's not fully
open source (you can see the sources though), but it comes for free for
anyone for any use up to 4 processors per box... It's good... I like it.
Pier
