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- From: nerd@percival.rain.com (Michael Galassi)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.mach
- Subject: Re: Mach 3.0 on 386/486
- Message-ID: <Bts7q1.1I5@percy.rain.com>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 05:39:34 GMT
- Article-I.D.: percy.Bts7q1.1I5
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- rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
-
- >ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com writes:
-
- >>Do NOT, repeat, do NOT buy Mach from Mt. Xinu!!...
-
- >Do NOT, repeat, do NOT listen to this bozo!!
-
- >mt Xinu is one of the oldest bastions of UNIX development in the commercial
- >world. Not to say they've never slipped up, but they know what they're
- >doing. Mach/386 is a good product.
-
- Hmm, maybe, maybe not, as of 2 months ago they had not gotten the freopen
- library routine to work right so you could not type common things like
- "compress -d *", you had to use "for i in * ; do compress -d $i ; done".
- They have known about this one for at least a year now. The floating
- point libraries are broken in more ways than one. Shadow password files
- are not supported. nslookup was not in their source tree when I asked
- why it was not included. When bugs are fixed, there is no way to get
- the fixes unless you have their overpriced autosupport (Sun, SCO, and
- HP all make fixes available over the internet.
-
- >Yeah, right..."my friend told me"...care to tell us who this illustrious
- >flamer was? The "appeal to authority" argument fallacy is bad enough,
- >without the "authority" being anonymous.
-
- No friends here, I bought the stuff and would sell it in a flash.
-
- >Actually, I ran Mach/386 for a fair while (not running it currently, only
- >because I have 2 more operating systems than machines!) and found it to be
- >a quality system. I used it for real development (i.e., a large piece of
- >software I was being paid to develop). I also found the folks at mt Xinu
- >very helpful, easy to deal with, and professional.
-
- I find it telling that you are not running it now, if I could afford
- BSDI's product I would not be running this stuff either.
-
- >I have to wonder if "several revs behind" means "not on the bleeding
- >edge"--waiting for code to settle down before using it.
-
- It means that root is forced to uid -2 even for trusted boxes over NFS
- unless you tweek the kmem value for nobody's uid among other things.
-
- >Second, because you might want support, and CMU isn't in the support biz.
- >That's why they arranged with mt Xinu to do the commercial version.
-
- support? mt Xinu? I laugh in your general direction.
- --
- Michael Galassi -- nerd@percival.rain.com
-