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> We have a whole generation of computer users used to this kind of crap: Microsoft software sucks Whose software doesn't suck, in your opinion?

• webreac 13y ago
  Sun, ... I can not find any other compagny that have produced repeatedly software that did not suck (NFS, NIS, SunOS, SunWindows, Java).
  • Nitramp 13y ago
    NFS, really? An attempt to abstract over network semantics using the same API as regular file systems, leading to random performance, a heap of locking issues, and all kinds of mayhem? Sun indeed produced a lot of really great software, but I wouldn't count NFS amongst that.
    • sillysaurus2 13y ago
      I think they were joking, maybe?
  • smtddr 13y ago
    Heh, you have not lived until a stale NFS mount takes down your whole server. Trying "sudo umount" on it, the umount command will not return and even "sudo kill -9" can't stop it[1]. A soft reboot can't fix it either; "sudo reboot" will hang the whole machine waiting for that NFS mount to respond to some deep kernel I/O call. You have to cut the power.... (This was HP_UX in 2003'ish) 1. http://askubuntu.com/questions/87074/how-to-kill-the-process-that-sudo-kill-9-cant-kill-without-reboot http://askubuntu.com/questions/87074/how-to-kill-the-process...
  • panzi 13y ago
    You mention NFS but not ZFS?
  • wfunction 13y ago
    ... Java?! Did you have C# in mind when you said that??