FreeBSD is better and faster... On 7/21/07, nepbabu.cx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Fajar Priyanto wrote: > > On Saturday 21 July 2007 11:19, Prasanna Gautam wrote: > >> Yeah true... but seems linux is catching up wayyyy faster in that > aspect... > >> come on, windows is still the same in like 5 years but linux has had > some > >> dramatic lift up... makeover in terms of gui and making things easy... > > Power of open source. :) > > > I agree. Just give Linux time to evolve. I'm sure sooner or later it > will be > > an even greater OS. > > It'll. There are gazillions of people working on making it faster, more > secure and most importantly user friendly everyday. I am pretty sure > I'll be able to witness that within my lifetime. ;) > > > Diversity is good. > > Diversity is only good if the organisation/community is strong and have > firm user/codebase. I've read about numerous open source projects gone > awry/fork because there is absolutely no funding for programmers to sit > home and work on the code. Let alone getting a job fully devoted to > open source projects. Big fishes like IBM, HP, Redhat insist on making > Open source the defacto standard but they still require ROA because at > the end of the day it's a business. > > If you look at where Ubuntu makes money, it's through charity, > professional enterprise support. They do not make money through giving > CDs/DVDs to users or through IRC support or through their forums. These > open source hobos are the "heroes" of the revolution and I salute them > for what they are doing. These projects have realised that making freely > available source is -the- way of the future. Look at Java itself as > well. There are numerous projects where programmers work for the sheer > love of programming and freedom than for getting money. Although getting > funding wouldn't hurt. ;) > The way in which these programmers work is unique and their tool are > unique as well. For e.g., look at how long it'll take for windows to > come up with better version of their stacking smashing prevention in > their VC++ (similar to pax), valgrind and metasploit framework, git, > moimoin, mailman etc.... These tools are all available for free (both > clause 1&2). Look at KDE,Gnome,Fluxbox, XFCE or even plain X. They are > so much advanced than their counterpart Windows. > > Look at virtualization softwares available for Linux (Vmware, dosbox, > Qemu, Xen) and compare to Windows (Microsoft Virtual Server [buggy as > hell]). Again most of them available for free. > > Lastly, the kernel itself. Even though I wouldn't say Linux kernel is > bug free and insanity, it itself is so much faster than windows. Try > running for e.g., Windows on 128mb ram with say 533Mhz clock speed. This > is impossible! Now try the same with say Linux kernel (plain vanilla of > course) and X on top of it. It'll run as hell smooth! > > The cards have changed and if Microsoft's playing dumb, I bet it'll be > bankrupt in few years time (Make that within next 5-10 years). Power > lies with users not big corporations. > > Anyway getting long now. So I stop. > > Just my .02 > Cheers. > > > > >
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