The problem is that we have too much anecdotal evidence and not enough
statistically valid generalization. It's clear that we could find individuals
whose experiences would substantiate any given premise. It would be better,
would it not, to know which OSes are, in the large, the most reliable ones.
This would require eliminating the emotion with which many support or bash the
OSes they use.
To us, an OS is a tool, not a religious icon. We need OSes which work
reliably, and the available data relating to reliability is not even sketchy -
it's on the level of political rhetoric.
One point relevant to this discussion is the availability of resources. You
work in an environment rich with such resources - people, machines, and
knowledge. We operate in a virtual vacuum, and this exacerbates the problems
that we encounter. For instance, the solution to our
Linux-won't-see-the-network-card problem might be dead simple, but we just
cannot find it. The books, the HOW-TOs, and the other static resources don't
have the answers. It is much easier for us to get an NT question answered than
it is with Linux.
If you find Linux easier to work with, then it may well be that you have
access to a much greater knowledge base. I genuinely envy you this.
David Fisher
> I have precisely the opposite experience. I teach AIS, and have students
> installing linux and/or NT on a variety of 'mainstream ' [read Compaq,
> Dell, Micron] and roll-your-own systems. It's my experience that linux
> is orders of magnitude easier to deal with [and teach with] than NT or,
> indeed, 95 [especially with the roll-your-own variety of system]. In fact
> students routinely use the Red Hat install process to repair disk
> partition tables that NT for some reason trashes and then refuses to
> recognize.
>
> I hope you don't take this as linux' exemption from criticism,
> but rather as just another datapoint.
>
> cheers
> S.
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> Steven Filling
> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: 05-Apr-98 Time: 17:49:10
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