>
> [...rant about Linux's failings deleted...]
"rant" might be a little strong, but fair enough :)
> > Of course if Linux was "Real Unix" we'd have something other
> > than beta quality FS journaling and the whole point would be moot.
>
> Of course, all of your comments beg the questions
>
> 1) If it's so bad, why do you use it?
Because:
It is improving faster than any OS in history. Todays
"pretty good" OS will be tomorrows enterprise class OS.
Linux will probably be better than "Unix" inside 2 years.
For the same reason people us MS OSes: good support by
software vendors, lots of good software for the OS, plenty
of vendor backing of that software. Just about every major
software vendor bar MS now actively support Linux, from
both the desktop end and the "real unix" end. This means,
for example, that I can get the entire Borland / Inprise
development suite (some as beta) but still have a unix
dev environment.
(Also I only just started, Linux was already here. I
did decide to keep it, for the reasons in this email)
Those are the biggies. Some other reasons to use it:
Industry buzz: Wow! We use Linux! Cool!
It's Open Source.
Cost: Linux staff tend to be a little cheaper than those
from a "commercial unix" background, though could be more
to do with experience: it's not hard to find middling Linux
people. x86 hardware (even the good stuff: eg IBM Netfinity)
is much cheaper than RISC unix equivalents, so the hardware
cost is lower than, say, Sun. Sometimes software licences
are cheaper as well: Linux sw is generally NT cost rather
than Unix cost (BIG difference).
> 2) If you're such an expert on Linux's failings, why don't you fix them?
Why should I have to? In any case, I don't have the required
development skill to do so, even if I had the time. I just
have a short fuse when I hit things that "just work" on the
OSes I'm used to, and there is no documentation other than the
source code.
</troll>
Faults with no explanation, no error message, and no docs of
the stuff involved remind me too much of my time as a MCP :)
At least with Linux SOMEONE usually knows the answer!
> DaZZa
Richard (Really, I love Linux, just not as much as Unix) Lane
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