On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 19:44:49 -0500 The Other <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 07 June 2003 05:07 pm, Cody Harris wrote: > > Can someone come up with a few good reasons to switch from XP to > > Linux? Someone wants to know the pros and cons and why he should > > switch. > > > > -Cody Harris > > 06/07/03 > > 1. My current system was designed from components I selected in the > Spring of 1998. At that time Win98 wasn't out yet, or if it was I > didn't have the $100+ to upgrade to it. I did get a copy of Windows > NT 4.0 for the ability to run programs in their own space, so that > one crashing app wouldn't take down the entire machine. > > How many flavors of Windows have been released since 1998? Take that > number and multiply by $100+ to keep your Operating System current. > > I spent $80 for Mandrake 9.1 Power Pack, and I've already got it set > up to keep the Operating System current from free downloads on the > Internet. How much will that save me over the next 5 years if I had > stayed with Windows? > > 2. I have no hard evidence to support this theory, but my gut tells > me that the hardware drivers in Linux are tighter code than in > Windows. Linux drivers seem to offer better performance than the > comparable Windows driver. > > I speculate this might be because Linux is not a profit driven > Operating System. This is significant. The driver writers are not > faced with production deadlines. This allows them to take their > time, test extensively, and tweak the code to the ninth degree. As a > result the code is smaller and more efficient with less logic errors > (bugs). I also speculate the Linux driver coders are doing it out of > a labor of love. They have the hardware and they want Linux to be > able to talk to it. > > 3. From my very brief look into the Linux world and the Open ?Source? > concept, the documentation for the kernel and the drivers are made > public to everyone. This allows talented programmers from around the > world to develop code that will integrate with another's code. It's > a worldwide community of programmers all following the same > development guidelines. The final code versions should be very > stable given the thousands of users/testers. Windows will never have > the ability to have this amount of extensive testing. > > Summarizing my main selling points are: 1) Linux code is better, and > 2) the Linux price is better. > > However, if you are dealing with computer illiterate people, a version > of Windows is probably better since Windows development has evolved > to make a desktop that is as human proof as possible. > > The Other > > Except to virus-writers.
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