On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:12:07 +0200, Ralf Schneider wrote: >> Well at least you've got to make up your mind. It's amazing how you >> mention instability in three instances and stagnation in two instances, >> without ever noticing the irony. What's happening? > > Instability: Red hat crashes most often. AIX, Solaris and HP-UX just > run. Windows crashes sometimes. (Very personal observation, of course) > > Instable APIs: POSIX is stable. Most other *NIX APIs regarding Audio, > GUI, Graphics and others are constantly changing, with very little > visible progress. What is not covered by POSIX is different on ever Unix > flavour: Hot do you get the peak virtual memory usage on AIX, Linux and > Solaris? > Windows: APIs are usually stable. New APIs with new concepts are > introduced beside existsing APIs. Yes there is a lot of cruft. And > windows is defintetly not "perfect"!!! In no way! It just sucks less > (TM) > > Stagnation: On *NIX: same (command line) tools, same concepts > (everything is a file) as decades ago. New ideas are usually copied > badly from Apple or Windows years later. > > So, again: As a desktop and programming environment I prefer Windows. > May be I would prefer OS X if I knew it. > > As a server: I would use and suggest UNIX. May be even Red Hat is OK and > the crashes we experience is a temporary problem and are hardware > related.
The only thing I'm interested in is, what new ideas are badly copied from Apple and _Microsoft_?