Re: Dark side of linux (against)
I don't have the spare cash to buy a new system based on 64 bit, and for many
companies, the performance increase is not needed. If the 2 GB limit has been
solved in the latest 2.3, then that will eliminate this problem.
Dave Bristel
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Raul Miller wrote:
> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:34:46 -0500
> From: Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>
> To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
> Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Dark side of linux (against)
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> > In article <cistron.Pine.LNX.3.96.991109111716.13381A-100000@gateway.targonia.com>,
> > >The one major problem is the 2 GB max file size limit, which keeps
> > >large databases from being able to run on a Linux platform. It is
> > >especially annoying that no effort has been made to resolve this
> > >issue.
>
> On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 10:30:12PM +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > A *lot* of effort has been made to resolve this issue. I take it you
> > didn't read the last few 2.3.x patches? LFS support has been folded
> > into 2.3.x and will be part of 2.4.
>
> Also, even under 2.2 you can run linux on 64 bit hardware.
>
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> Raul
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