On 2/16/2010 10:33 AM, Ben Kamen wrote:
On 2/16/2010 10:02 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Windows 2000 is a decade old now - and was not even intended to be a
desktop OS. And you need to defrag after making big disk changes. If you
don't already see why this is a bad comparision, try installing a
10-year old Linux server distro and try to update it to a current
desktop piecemeal.
So what MS gives us now is a modern OS in which they STILL patch
regularly to fix things that should have been fixed a long time ago....
As does every supplier of complex code. It's a feature.
(and I'm not saying Linux is immune, but there's a level of pride for
producing solid code that comes with the personally driven contributers
of the OSS community than any company worried about the bottom line.)
I take it you don't read the changelogs on linux distribution updates to
see the historic bugs that are still being found and fixed. You should.
But even more offensive is the level of control that was attempted in
Vista that has lost its fanfare and is probably successfully implemented
into Win7. (and now with MS inserting the new version of WGA which
caused a lot of false positives last time in a fashion even more
deceitful than that with WGA.)
As an example: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
Sigh.
Vista is irrelevant. If you read any trade literature at all you would
never have touched it in the first place. Just like any X.0 version of
a linux distribution. But realistically, the problem in Vista was
changing the driver interface, something that Linux does with every
re-compile and enterprise distributions have to work around by
backporting some of the updates into old kernels without breaking them.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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