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=============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ =============================================================================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 14:10:13 -0600 From: Anne Wilson <address@hidden> To: address@hidden Subject: [Fwd: Re: troubles stopping ldm with ldmadmin on linux] I'm posting this for Robert: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: troubles stopping ldm with ldmadmin on linux Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 16:59:36 +0100 From: Robert Mullenax <address@hidden> Organization: UCAR/Unidata To: Anne Wilson <address@hidden> References: <address@hidden><address@hidden> In my opinion just another good reason that Unidata did not jump on the "Let's dump every form of Unix for Linux" bandwagon. I myself had to learn Unix on my own and I serve as a forecaster and maintain our Solaris systems (Intel and Sparc) and our web pages for data access, plus Safety Officer, and balloon performance analyst. I don' have the time or the skills to have to rebuild kernels or hack and tweak on Linux all the time, I did try it in the beginning for my copy of Solaris arrived and it was just too much hassle (and too many little bugs) compared to Solaris which was install, get the Unidata stuff going and then leave it alone. All you have to do is look at the ldm-users e-mail archives and look at the troubles the Linux guys have. I guess it is not trouble if you are a full-time sys admin and have been using Unix for 10 years, but I don't fit in that category. I guess I have gone on a lot of these please don't go all to Linux diatribes recently.. Robert Mullenax New Mexico State Univ/NSBF