Novell will make 'immature' Linux robust and reliable (ComputerWorld) [LWN.net]

Novell will make 'immature' Linux robust and reliable (ComputerWorld)

Posted Apr 16, 2003 16:43 UTC (Wed) by dlapine (subscriber, #7358)
Parent article: Novell will make 'immature' Linux robust and reliable (ComputerWorld)

Isn't comparing Novell (file and print services) to Linux (General Purpose) like comparing apples and oranges?

As for "robust, reliable and scalable", well, we're using Linux and not Novell on our supercomputing clusters., 2 of which are in the top 100 from the top500.org lists.

In fact, I don't know of any large scale Novell systems.

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Large Novell installations?

Posted Apr 16, 2003 17:03 UTC (Wed) by sphealey (guest, #1028) [Link]

As for "robust, reliable and scalable", well, we're using Linux and not Novell on our supercomputing clusters., 2 of which are in the top 100 from the top500.org lists.
In fact, I don't know of any large scale Novell systems.

As I indicated earlier, though, that tends to be a "two cultures" issues. People working with supercomputers aren't generally concerned with building 20,000 member, multi-time-zone, multi-language business directories. And people doing such business-oriented work usually don't see CPU utilization above 3%. So the two are often unaware of the others' concerns and challenges.

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Large Novell installations?

Posted Apr 16, 2003 18:08 UTC (Wed) by dlapine (subscriber, #7358) [Link]

I'd have to lump the kernel developers in with the supercomputer culture myself. 20K business directories don't seem to be a favorite project of the CS crowd :)

Large OpenLDAP installations?

Posted Apr 18, 2003 7:04 UTC (Fri) by nicku (subscriber, #777) [Link]

We use OpenLDAP with a few thousand accounts (posixAccount, sambaAccount), some tens of thousands of entries. And let me tell you, our load average sometimes goes way higher than I would wish. We currently run on a dual P-III. I would welcome a less CPU intensive directory solution (though I prefer free as in freedom software).

Large Novell installations?

Posted Apr 18, 2003 20:36 UTC (Fri) by george (guest, #1197) [Link]

Surely Google counts as a large scale Linux installation, for anyone's
definition of "large"!