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Linux vs. Windows: What's The Difference?

Posted by timothy on from the parallels-maybe-but-come-on dept.

underpar writes "This zdnet article covering Microsoft's Tech Ed conference quotes one of the speakers, Mark Russinovich, as saying that Linux is becoming more and more like Windows. He cites many examples of where Linux 'copies' Windows and other operating systems. He says the only current difference is 'how windowing is handled.'"

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  1. Re:An important difference by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · · Score: 1, Troll
    How many of these compilers will you find on the Windows installation disk? None. Linux on the other hand ships with compilers as standard.

    Yep, us stupid Windoze lusers aren't clever enough to recompile our kernels every 24 minutes, so we have to install ready-made software that just works instead. What a stoopid idea. :-)

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  2. Re:An important difference by IdleTime · · Score: 1, Troll

    bah...
    Try this one (both in Linux and in Windows and see which one runs it :-)

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  3. Re:An important difference by quigonn · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's really funny that you need Free Software to make Windows usable. Heck, I am currently forced to work on Win32 (Metroworks Codewarrrior for Symbian OS only exists for this platform), and it would be impossible to survive (for me) on Win32 without cygwin, vim, gimp2, putty, Thunderbird, Firefox and gaim.

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