i5/OS is better than Linux.

["Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/10/07, Lukas Beeler <l.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Today, IBM released a new machine, the System i 515.
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> It's aimed at the SMB market. Even though pricing isn't out yet in
> Europe, it still doesn't look like a good offer.

> God damnit IBM, i5/OS is so very cool, but the hardware you sell is
> several years old and slow (and probably overpriced, but I don't know
> that yet).

this final point about i5/OS is so true. esp compared to Linux.
Arguably, you could compile GNU C code in ILE C.  The parts that dont
compile could be corrected using the excellent compiler preprocessor
APIs of i5/OS.  ( .NET does not provide the multiple source code views
of the executable in its debugger that i5/OS provides. ) The end
result would be all GNU C applications could run native on i5/OS.

i5/OS is better than Linux because it provides integrated call stack
support and exception handling. Linux does not.  To my knowledge, you
cant WRKJOB on a Linux process, view the call stack, hold the job and
place it in debug mode, then use a source code debugger to step up and
down the call stack to find your applications problem.

-Steve