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Story: Longhorn and the Linux long-game

Posted by: sigma (Monday 18 April 2005, 10:19 PM)

Vishnu's just mad because his job got outsourced back stateside (;. Besides, in my opinion to infer that unix/linux/bsd/darwin is inferior, or to outright claim it is just assinine. I've been an avid user of unix variants for coming close to a decade now, and I can agree that it's not for everyone. FreeBSD is definately not for joe user. Joe user buys what he knows, and what's easy. However, you seem to make the mistake of correlating user friendly with better product. Because of how vastly superior unix variants have performed for me, you couldn't pay me to go back to windows. How many windows users out there can honestly tell me they've gone 8 months consecutively without needing to reboot? How many linux machines got hit by the dcom worm, and what were the machines microsoft set up to protect their website during the attacks running? XF86/Xorg depending on the window manager you're using will typically only use 20-32 megs of your RAM, leaving the rest free. Try running XP on a DX2 66mhz. Console mode flies. X is pretty sluggish, but the machine is still operable to it's full potential. While I agree most users really wouldn't take to linux as per its complexities, to call it inferior for being an open source initiative is just plain stupid.