Re: [cobalt-users] anonymous ftp on raq 4I

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Paul Jacobs wrote:

> I am not very linux or unix savoy, but I have worked with some....

But you nonetheless feel compelled to argue technical merit ;P

> The fact that you have to install a virtual NIC for every I.P. that does 
> not have a physical NIC slows the OS down, I have found past 50 I.P.'s on 
> any linux box slows it down badly.

And you don't think windows has virtual network interface abstractions?

> 
> Not wanting to start a holy war here just sharing my problems....

Ahh...the 'i am not a toll' disclaimer
> 
> As for the cobalt boxes.... everything is passed through a database loaded 
> on the box, and everything is referenced from it for all hosting functions, 
> so adding anything to the box for hosting needs to pass through the 
> database??!.

And? Yoy don't like databases? Hmm, You must have tried to out ms access,
i don't blame you , i would probably hate databases if i was forced to use
it also ;P

> the cobalt boxes are so proprietary as far as the OS config goes you should 
> call them a Packard bell (a hardware reference of a system that died out 
> because it was so hard to program drivers for there hardware)

Some of us rather likes the little white Packard Bell's , and had no real
problems uaing them, granted their modes is a sound card card was a
disaster, but it was targeted at the low end , so who cares?

As to linux being proprietary, FUD ;)

linux+postgress+apache is about as standard run of the mill as i have seen
anywhere, cobalt's interface is cobalt's, so what? plesk's is theirs,
windows IIS admin panel is open software? LOL

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gsh