--- Forwarded Message from Bob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 19:24:38 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Bob Peckham <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum    <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #5033.7 LINUX Question (!)
>In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>

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Well, I have persuaded the Computer Center to move ZB server onto a
machine dedicated to serving and in the Computer Center, where there are
folks to boot it up when it crashes (it has crashed 8 times in the last 9
days).

On the other hand, the MkLinux we have running on a dedicated MAC 7600 has
been running for as long as 130+ days at a time without crashing. 

My chief worry was not just my sites, which I am moving, but I was
concerned about the stunted growth of our online courses, which are all on
the FLC server (once bitten, twice shy).

YES, the Linux is like the new Mac OSs because they are built on kernels
not unlike those in MkLinux.  If I am not mistaken, some of the
MkLinux.org pages come out of the Globe-Gate server, because David Gatwood
(now in graduate school in California) is the External Development
Coordinator.

TBob

Bob Peckham
Director, The Globe-Gate Project
Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages
Univ. of Tennessee-Martin
Martin, TN  38238  USA
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html
CV: http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/tbobcv.html