Date:         Sat, 22 May 1999 02:09:30 -0400
Reply-To:     Sudhir Desai <desa4622@KETTERING.EDU>
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From:         Sudhir Desai <desa4622@KETTERING.EDU>
Organization: Kettering University (formerly GMI E&MI) - Flint MI
Subject:      (long)Re: Gerry is ill - suggestions for a server upgrade
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i know this had been discussed previously in another thread about 4 or 5
months ago i believe.... or whenever it was gerry moved from out west.

some people had stated that wouldn't it be easier not to mention cheaper
if gerry was running a linux system with apache web-server.

well for the past couple weeks i've been fooling around with linux 6.0 in
my spare time here at college, and it is awesome...
i used to have win 98 on my dell laptop, and it crashed all the time...
but now since switching to linux, the only problems it has are when it
starts to overheat from not having powersave turned on.

the apache server works great also.

oh yeah, just to say how great this linux/apache package is, this is the
system that hotmail.com(owned by microsoft)  uses for their stuff.. they
tried to switch over to NT, but NT crashed cause of the massive server
traffic, that was going on 24/7.. there was no time to reboot the machine
every week or so.. so they switched back over to linux, and haven't had
any major problems since.  i think that was one thing someone pointed out
last time this issue was discussed also.

oh yeah, and if you are considering running linux, drop me a line, and i
can hook you up with the latest version of Red Hat linux as of now it is
Red Hat 6.0


my e-mail address is :

desa4622@kettering.edu



 oh well... my $.02 worth


Sudhir H. Desai          1984 VW Vanagon 3.4 liter Chevy V-6
desa4622@kettering.edu   sudhir_desai@geocities.com
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