[rescue] Mainframe on eBay

Sat Sep 17 16:28:36 CDT 2005

On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 17:00, Skeezics Boondoggle wrote:
> brilliant, given that the Mach guys had done it 5 or 10 years earlier, but
> of course those previous efforts were "crap", just like every time the
> Linux world "invented" a new knock-off version of something the thing they
> replaced was also "crap", etc.  So maybe I have an irrational dislike for 
> Linux based on emotional rather than technical reasons, but I never said 
> that about AIX.

Current peeve:  if you set up virtual servers under Linux using the vservers kernel patch ...

inittab does not work right in all cases (like you have daemontools installed and are trying to use it to start your own custom services at boot time and have them restarted if they go down).

inittab. 

Does.Not.Work.Right.

--Patrick