Cristian Carnutu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
> The subject was Seagate HDD.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote[in part]:
> > I wouldn't even try a RH install with 4mb.
> > with 8b I would still expect lots of trouble.
>
> Well, here is a problem.
> If so, where is the so much claimed Linux superiority?
> On a 386 with 4mb I run Win3.11 with Word 6 and Exell 5, Adobe photoshop
> 2.0 ,and it worked fine (slow, of course, but it worked).
He said *RH* install. You can, in fact, run linux on many machines
with ~the footprint you describe. From the palm pilot on up to
Beowolf clusters. *That* is the 'so much claimed Linux superiority'.
;-)
> I understand you can make the best server using Linux. But you can not
> call something "Operating System " only for this reason.
> When you try to do something for the mass-use you are going in the same
> direction as Microsoft: see KDE and Gnome.As a gratis product Linux has
> no resposability for the client, and this is the only reason Linux has
> not (yet) the problem of the compatibility with the past (which makes so
> much trobule at Microsoft).
I'm having a bit of a hard time following this completely due to
language differences (no offense please, you speak my mother tongue
*far* better than I speak yours!). I think you are saying that Linux
is only better because it is free and that Linux has an advantage
because it doesn't have to worry about compatibility with the past.
I submit that both of these are false.
1) I work with both on a daily basis (building applications that must
work on both) and find the Linux is much more stable, at least as fast
and much more flexable than Windows NT 4.0 SP3. Now I could upgrade
to SP5, but based on 9 years experience working under various Windows,
I somehow doubt if the latest and greatest SP is the issue.
2) Linux has excellent compatibility. It comes in the flavor of open
standards. So not only does Linux (with it's GNU friends) continue to
compile and execute code that is decades old, it does so in such a
fashion that I'm able to trivially move my code from Linux to Irix to
Solaris (which, BTW, I do daily as well).
Regarding 'the best server'. I'm quite happy with Linux as my server
platform, that much is true. It is also true that I think WindowMaker
running on Linux is a *far* better solution than Windows is. Some may
disagree and run Enlightenment, FVWM or another flavor of choice (talk
about compatability!), that is their option and another strong point.
The user has choices.
Understand also that I'm not a long time Unix freaknik out to get Evil
Bill because I resent the success he's had. I've been programming for
twenty years (happy anniversary to me) on Apple, DOS, Windows and it's
only in the last three that I have been first exposed to daily contact
with Unix. I don't ever want to go back. This is the way it's
supposed to be!
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