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SuSE 7.3 vs XP
rutledjw writes: "This should be good for some flame wars. A story on HPWorld that I read about on NewsForge gives an interesting comparison between XP and Linux. I personally think the story wanders a little and wouldn't call it comprehensive, but it is interesting. It does point out a particular bottleneck in how the 2.4.x kernels handle asynchronous IO. Apparently this is being addressed in the 2.5 kernels..." It actually appears quite low-flame and balanced, and unlike some Linux vs. Windows comparisons, goes into decent detail rather than just glib generalizations.
Redhat Redhat Redhat.. How many distrobutions are there? 20? 30? More? I'm not bashing your comment about it having a better hardware detection system, which it probably has one of the best amoung the distrobutions. But its not the ONLY distrobution. Their has been alot of times where I've read articles dealing with linux, and most of them focus on the user friendly distrobutions. I'm not here to start a flame war about which distro is best, but rather which distro is best for you. Why is it all I ever see is RH, MDK, and SUSE?
Anyways.. I'm starting to just rant. I guess the point I'm getting to is that you can't successfully compare linux and windows, because linux can't be completely represented by a single distrobution. Personally I like Slackware for both workstation and server. I feel like I can streamline it down with more ease than RedHat. But for production servers, I'd rather use Redhat, due to the number of 3rd party software venders that make packages for it.
But I've also played with Mandrake, and Debian, and have seen features in them that I like too. So I guess if your gonna compare "Linux", compare EVERY distribution.
Can all fish swim?
glib? Does glib even run on windows?
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