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Do You Remember Bob?
GdoL writes: "Do you remember Bob? Byte's editor starts his monthly column talking about Bob the OS Interface from Microsoft in the middle 1990s. And he didn't forget either Bob the programming language from a former technical editor of Dr. Dobbs Journal, David Betz. This OO language is widely use on 'DVD players and set-top boxes produced by the likes of Toshiba, Samsung, and Motorola.' Do you remember any other language long forgotten that is still used in the real world?"
First of all. This is seriously OT and Flame bait (this meaning the above comment and my relpy.) Oh well.
Your first point "linux requires a *lot* of maintenance" Yes linux requires time and expertise. You can also go out a pay big bucks for a commerical unix and it will _still_ require lots of time.
Ext2 is generally considered quite stable, but as with any OS. Backup backup backup! Hard drives die, admins do stupid things, people break in. In general shit happens and one of the best ways to prepare for it is to backup. You do have backups of your data don't you? Or were you going to trust your .
You don't want crashes run one of the more mature kernels. 2.2.x is quite stable. And i had a machine that had an uptime of a year and a half on 1.2.13. Crashes and I mean kernel oops not seg faults are fairly rare. I've only seen a few kernel oops (10) but then again I don't run the bleading edge stuff.
Although each distribution of linux has differnet ways of doing things, placing files etc. most of it is very unixish. Its usually understood that Unix is not an OS that you use without some learning. If its too hard then don't use it. As far as linux having broken tools i've found many of the gnu utils to be far superior to their commerical equivilants. Take Solaris tar, awk, make, etc...
"spit out the most childish and unprofessional messages" you mean like your post? Most 14yo I know don't have the skill to write the tools used in linux. Thats not to say they very talented youths don't exist; its just that most younger people using linux don't code for it yet.
Linux probably is not a good choice for a company seeking a reliable unix, but not for the reasons you've given. Solaris is a very mature Unix and quite dependable (excluding solaris x86). If you want a single entity with 24/7 tech support and big bucks behind it then fork out the cash. And for god sakes if you don't like it then don't use it.
Hmmmmmm...... how about Latin? Not everything has to be computer related...
S.t.e.v.e.
Win 9x doesn't have a true login feature - its an attempt to log into MS Networking, though 99% of the world doesn't use that anyway.