Re: [HACKERS] (: JDBC+(Sun ~3:pm MST) CVS :) -also question abou

> On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Andrew Martin wrote:
>
> > > > > > I'll say it again and again - glibc-2.0 is the _STANDARD_ (actually
> > > > > > reference) platform for Unix.  All Unix.  Not just Linux.
> > > > > > Adopted last year.
> > > > >
> > > > >     And...how many Unix (other then Linux) are *actually* using it?
> > > > > Any idea on how we can test whether it is being used or not?
> > > >
> > > > AFAIK some BSD's are now using it - but I am probably wrong.  I gave up on
> > > > BSD in '92.
> > >
> > >     Geez, about the time I gave up on Linux and converted to *BSD
> > > *grin*
> > >
> > No wonder you're so anti-Linux if you stopped using it in '92. I started with
> > 0.99pl13 in November '93. It must have been around v0.2 in '92 and of course
> > it wasn't stable then....

Linux is a lot more stable.  I've had an old 386 notebook running
as a DNS server up for 519 days!

>
>     Checking now...oops, you are right:
>
>    Record created on 03-Jun-93.
>
>     That was when we created the DNS record for my first company,
> which ran 2/3rds on Linux...so whatever version existed back there.
>
>     In Linux's favor here, though...even at that point, if you ran
> Linux on a *non-networked* system (ie. we had some dialup lines into it,
> but not networking)...that thing ran pretty much rock-solid.  It wasn't
> until we actually put some load on her that she wouldn't run for more then
> a day or so at a time...
>
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