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Comprehensive Win2k/Linux Comparison
paxdiablo writes "Nice to see journalistic integrity in the never-ending Windows2000/Linux battle. Check out the article over at BBSpot for the final word." Heh - definitely one of the more amusing compare and contrasts. Mebbe Mindcraft should talk to them? *grin*
Here we go again.
.. 3dmark2000 on Linux? Don't get me started.
No OS is better than another, it depends totally on what you use it for, and personal preference of course. I think Linux is a fine OS, but the advantages that it does have over Win2k are irrelevant to me. 80% of the software I use do NOT exist under Linux, and the alternatives are, in my opinion, inferior. Thus Win2k is the superior OS for the stuff I use my computer for. I will not go into detail, as any Win2k promotion in this forum is likely to mark me "-1, troll" or something similar.
Suffice to say, in my opinon no OS can be generally considered to be better than another, it's ALWAYS different from person to person. Your taste in OSes, your occupation, your hobbies, your cashflow, all determine what OS you use.
Take for example gamers. How many gamers use Linux? Not many. Look at the hardware enthusiasts
Then the webmasters. How many webmasters run Apache on Windows 2000? Alright, so there might be a couple, but it is a commonly known fact I believe that Linux is a better OS for webservers than Windows.
I could go on comparing the strengths of each OS, but it's pretty clear to me that different OSes will always have different strengths and this renders any debate about which OS is "better" useless.
Just my two cents. Oh and don't come dragging with arguments like "Linux is more stable" because if you can't get Windows 2000 running without crashes, it's really your skills that are lacking. Nothing personal, anyone who knows Win2k will tell you the same - it's a great OS, but like Linux, it's not really suited for those who don't know how clear a few obstacles on their way to a perfect system.
/w
Remember when a search for "more evil than satan" gave several hits for Bill Gates and M$FT in the top 10 (and even one for Disney)?
its defined on everything2, so it must exsist.
hey rob. you could probably include a spell checker in slashcode...
use LaTeX? want an online reference manager that
-- john
Domain Names - Windows2000.com redirects you to a Windows 2000 product page on the Microsoft site. I'm not sure I'd trust my mission critical apps to a company that can't even afford to give it's flagship OS its own domain name
That really bloody annoys me that does. The author of this article clearly has no idea how domain names should be used by companies. Microsoft are actually doing this right.
It should be http://www.company.com/products/product1/ and not http://www.companyproduct1.com/ that companies like HP often use. It's a stupid waste of domain names, admittedly domain names that the companies would claim they have a right to anyway, but even so.
When will clueless journalists stop trying to make the Internet into something that they want it to be, and not accept it for what it is and has been for a long time.
Stuii!
Funny article! The idea of mascots arose a great question though -- why doesn't MS do mascots?
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
Berto
No, that was last year under the old version numbering system. Now it's "William Henry Gates 1955"
Rich
I actually did my master's research on a comparison of multi-user operating systems. http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~cfreeze/research.html . I had fun doing it, and was suprised.
So if I write a funny comparison that says Windows is better, it will make it's way to Slashdot?
- I don't care if they globalize against free speech. All my best free thoughts are done in my head.
You're methodology is all wrong and quite inapropriate.
A search for Hate Linux reveals 174,000 hits, while a search for Hate Windows reveals around a half million hits. Hate Microsoft gets a third of a million. Hate Sun Microsystems gets 10,000, while Hate AOL gets a half million. Hate Canada and Hate USE also get around a half million each. Hate France gets 350,000.
Of course my initial methodology is poor too. I should only be counting those that are highly correlated, for example using only complete quote delimited phrases:
Hate Microsoft.....7,775
Hate AOL...........3,290
Hate Unix............347
Hate Linux...........393
Hate Sun Microsystems..5
Hate America.......2,090
Hate Canada..........260
Hate USA.............213
Hate France..........185
Hate Quebec...........42
Hate Saskatchewan......1
Hate You.........121,000
Hate Me...........95,200
Hate God...........5,510
Hate Satan...........236
Love Satan.........1,760
Hate Nobody..........323
Hate No One..........758
Hate Everybody.....2,930
Hate Everyone......6,910
Hate Everything....8,690
Love Her.........283,000
Love Him.........335,000
Love Me..........471,000
Love You.......1,060,000
Feel better now?
OK, so did anyone realise that this was actually submitted as a comment the other day?
Holy shit, did *any* of you read the article?
It's a comparison of the OSes on the basis of name, mascot, and the opinion of a Magic 8-Ball.
Sometimes I think some Slashdotters value a low comment number over comment coherency/relevance.
Without the pad, it's not Dance Dance Revolution, it's Listen
www.trsdos.com is a pretty crappy site, all it says is "get internet explorer 5.5". No possibility to try the site with any other browser. Configuring junkbuster to return an IE user agent gives a page about some class completely unrelated to TRSDOS. However, i award negative points to Microsoft products because the site was created by and is served off of those products. Also, negative points to the Harvard Extension school for whoever there created the page. There is no www.trsdossucks.com.
No mascot that i can recall... maybe some BUAF spelling "TRSDOS"?
The search engine test returns 0 results for both phrases. Does that beat 66,700 for W2K?
The Magic 8-Ball test was inconclusive... it answered "Yes" no matter how i phrased it (although it did have some trouble deciding, it told me to try again 5 times in a row)
"Fuck TRSDOS"... ummm, yeah. Takes too long to say.
There we have it! A post about an ancient OS that few know anything about. Now excuse me as i go peruse my crate of TRS-80 related magazines for cool BASIC programs. Old-style BASIC, with required line numbers and all that goodness, not this new "Visual Basic" Microsoft pushes. And no fancy GUI, not even lower-case letters on my old Model I without that special chip someone hacked in!
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I like BBspot, but this isn't one of their better efforts. (A nice bit of Slashdot-link-whoring, though.) My picks are Hour Lost Explaining Computer Terms To Mom and Linux Developer Gets Laid.
Well, since these sorts of comparisons seem to be in, lets take it to the news media:
Comparison of ZDNet and Slashdot
Names:
Well, this one is a no brainer. With a name like Slashdot, it has to be good. Besides sounding like something you would hear in a 1st grade class ("Now to finish the letter, just slashdot."), it also make a cool sword sound effect. Just saying ZDNet out loud, one must cringe. It sounds like something that should be served in a Italian restaurant. "Come to the Olive Garden to sample our new ZDNet." See?
Advantage: Slashdot
Content:
Hmmm, this one is a tough one. On the one side, you have Slashdot, where you can't go twenty four hours without hearing either a Linux story, anti-Windows story, a technology story that will not be affordable by mere mortals for another ten years, or some lame attempt to be funny article like my post wants to be. Then, you have ZDNet. Just have one word, Berst. Need I say more? Okay, how about Dvorak? Oh yeah, that's the sugar.
Advantage: ZDNet
Mascot:
This one is tough, but we will try and break it down. To start off Slashdot, you have one of the founder's name CmdrTaco. You think taco, you think south of the border. You think south of the border, you think Taco Bell. You think Taco Bell, you think little chuaua. That's right, the once fired Taco Bell mascot. How can you go wrong? "Yo geuro Slashdot." Sorry to butch that word, but the exact spelling escapes me. ZDNet, you think C|Net, you think big red sign with the C|Net logo, which makes you think stop, don't cross, or any other liberty robbing rule. Sorry, that makes me cry just thinking about it.
Advantage: Slashdot
There you have it. An indepth look at these two media power houses. To save you the money, definately check out Slashdot, where in our scientific research one 2 to 1!
Bryan R.
Bryan R.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, or $12.50 as seen on eBay.....
A search for "Linux Sucks" yields 114,000 results, and a search for "Windows 2000 Sucks" gets 66,700.
And thanks to the power of Open Source propaganda, where you can rely on everyone to be an advocate, as opposed to the old style Closed Source propaganda, where the majority of suckage has to come from the vendor, this problem will be fixed by Linux 2.4!
NO CARRIER
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