Les Mikesell wrote:
already know how to use them. Imagine if every free OS distribution had included a broken copy of bash and perl and maybe even C and internally modified their code so things still mostly worked.
Were you around back in the late 90s when redhat shipped a broken gcc? :) Even today redhat seems to have the biggest mind share and perhaps
That was 2.96, I think? <snip>
And even if tomcat was included it's not exactly the easiest thing to use out of the box, even after almost 7 years of using tomcat I still find regular old apache 10x easier to manage, so I lean towards more basic solutions when they present themselves.
Yeah - tomcat eats memory, and that's what I was thinking of when I mentioned java errors resulting in 50, 100, 200 lines of useless stack trace. <snip> mark