I actually like OS/2, and unlike Linux it has had threading built into it from day one and it works pretty well. Personally I would not be surprised
if Zope running on OS/2 outperformed Zope running on Linux using the same hardware.
That may not be true if glibc has been built with NPTL and you are using Linux 2.6 kernel and Python that you've compiled yourself. I'm getting very good performance on this combo. On the other hand, if it's working for you, best to leave it alone. If anyone knows of any software to benchmark thread performance, do let me know. -----Original Message----- From: John Poltorak [mailto:jp@warpix.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 18:15 To: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope startup errors On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 09:12:56AM +0000, Chris Withers wrote:
John Poltorak wrote:
Chris - why are you on OS/2, btw?
I remember Lord Gates telling me, many years ago, that OS/2 was going to
be the biggest program of all time and I believed him ;-)...
I guess I just stuck with it since I didn't want to be on the upgrade treadmill, didn't like viruses and wanted to be in control of what my computer was doing rather than having mysterious upgrades being auto-installed.
So go for Linux or MacOS X and end your pain on suffering. FWIW, I'm on Win2K, don't have any autoupdating going on and don't use any M$ software apart from Windows and Office, so don't have too many viri to contend with...
I actually like OS/2, and unlike Linux it has had threading built into it from day one and it works pretty well. Personally I would not be surprised if Zope running on OS/2 outperformed Zope running on Linux using the same hardware. Besides that, more and more open source software is now buildable on OS/2 so there is little point in moving away. In fact XFree86 4.4.0 became available for OS/2 before Linux, AFAIK. Now it looks as though I can build Zope 2.7.0 straight from source without requiring any patches at all, so there is much less suffering involved than there used to be. As for virii, I am not aware of a single one which affects OS/2. 'Security through obscurity' is quite a useful motto ;-)...
Chris
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