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What Differentiates Linux from Windows?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the besides-the-random-crashes dept.

tail.man sent in a Linux Insider piece about the difference between Linux and Windows. Quoting the synopsis "So, what's really the difference between a Unix variant like Linux and any Windows OS? It's that Microsoft reacts to marketing pressure to make design decisions favoring running a few processes faster but then finds itself forced first to layer in backward compatibility and then to engage in a patch-and-kludge upgrade process until the code becomes so bloated, slow and unreliable that wholesale replacement is again called for."

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  1. Re:Mozilla Crash@? by ultrabot · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know somewhat offtopic... but the article link crashed Moz here for me.. anyone else get that? Ver 1.5

    I'll AOL that.

    Actually, this is a good opportunity to pinpoint all those Internet Exploder users within the slashdot community and excommunicate them once and for all.

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  2. Re:The author, Paul Murphy... by dupper · · Score: 5, Funny
    At first, I thought that said The Guide to Unix Defenestration. Of course, I pictured a bunch of pocket protectored Geeks toppling a server rack out of a 6th story window. Heh.

    Oh, and for those who don't get this or the parent: ..."

  3. Definition... (OT) by Embedded+Geek · · Score: 5, Funny
    Whenever anyone presents a "definition" that is clearly loaded with bias (regardless of whether I share the bias), it makes me recall an incident with Clint Eastwood (cited here):

    While he was in New York on location for Bronco Billy (1980), Clint Eastwood agreed to a television interview. His host, somewhat hostile, began by defining a Clint Eastwood picture as a violent, ruthless, lawless, and bloody piece of mayhem, and then asked Eastwood himself to define a Clint Eastwood picture.

    "To me," said Eastwood calmly, "what a Clint Eastwood picture is, is one that I'm in."

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  4. It's ownership by DangerSteel · · Score: 5, Funny
    Microsoft owns the code to Windows

    SCO owns the code to Linux

    any questions? /puts on flamesuit/

  5. Re:Close... by zcat_NZ · · Score: 5, Funny

    .. That's what I used to think. Then I tried installing Redhat 9.

    "somewhere inside Gnome, there's a small, fast and efficient GUI struggling to get out"

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