[cod] 1.41b

[Mark J. DeFilippis]

Just out of curiosity...

Anyone seeing any of this in FreeBsd?, RH E3.0?

I have the latest Debian, but the thing that drove me to
RH E3.0 was the version control.  Wor inexpensive machines
where I don't have an extra $800 for a license,  Freebsd, with
emphasis on the Free part...

Somewhat, we can blame people like my boss. As CTO, I report
to CIO.  He, as many others, read the "market-tecture mags",
and did not consider Linux a true enterprise class system.

In response, Redhat offers professional service, SLA's,
CHanges RH 9.0 to  new name ES3.0.  Raises the price
on the server from $99 to $1,399.

Now, my boss has no problems.  We buy a license. Get
quantity discount. Purchase maintenance, all the big $
items corporate CIO's need to see to feel cozy.

But that left us with Fudora, Red Hat "Well, if you want the
bleeding edge, crashing all the time, use click HERE, or
to use ES WS for only $1000, click here".

Slackware is maintained by one person in reality. If he gets hit
by a bus, the first Linux version I ever started out with
goes away?

AT&T couldn't sell Unix. Unix Systems Labs couldn't do anything
with it, even though SCO wanted to buy it.  FInally, they sold
the rights to SCO. Now SCO can justify the increased prices
to their SCO Unix serverware market, etc.  Linux comes along and
kills that.  THe suit, threats..  I still run Linux until they come in
to my home office and look.  But if support dries up, the reality is
FreeBsd will be there.

BTW... I am not particularly fond of FreeBsd, but some wonderful
things came out of BSD in to UNIX V, and Linux followed.
(Such as Socket abstraction layer.... remember the TLI interface.. Yuk!)

Well, just a heads up here.  If the Linux side goes in the toilet,
FreeBsd may be the only place to go for under $1000.

Sorry for length, but if some didn't know some of the long history, you
now the highlights now...


Dr D

At 02:20 PM 9/22/2004, you wrote:
>Just to register, I don't see the problem with my RedHat 9.0, kernel 2.4.20.
>
>Regards,
>Ben
>
>--------- Mensagem Original --------
>De: cod at icculus.org
>Para: cod at icculus.org <cod at icculus.org>
>Assunto: Re: [cod] 1.41b
>Data: 22/09/04 15:13
>
> > Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
> >
> > &gt;Get some.
> > &gt;
> > &gt;http://0day.icculus.org/cod/coduo-lnxded-1.41b.tar.bz2
> > &gt;
> > &gt;This is the same as 1.41a, except it doesn't crash on startup.  :)
> > &gt;
> > &gt;What happened is there is a function that allocates a ton of stack
> > &gt;space, which was causing some systems to crash (I assume there are
>some
> > &gt;defaults that are higher and lower between distros (kernels? glibc?)
>for
> > &gt;the amount of stack space a process gets). I just changed that
>function
> > &gt;to not allocate on the stack anymore and it no longer crashes.
> > &gt;
> > &gt;If you aren't crashing on startup, you don't need to update to 1.41b,
> > &gt;but you probably should anyhow.
> > &gt;
> > &gt;--ryan.
> > &gt;
> > &gt;
> > &gt;
> > &gt;
> > &gt;
> > if you need another temp shell im offering
> > Jase
> >

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Mark J. DeFilippis                    defilm at acm.org
                                       defilm at ieee.org


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