If you knew anything about Unix, you'd know that proper coding of a Unix application will allow it to be compiled on any Unix system. Linux users, usually too proud and haughty to acknowledge anything else, write lots of software that doesn't compile anywhere else. BSD users, when writing software, are more attuned to the topic of portability, and write code that compiles everywhere, including Linux. Example: Python. Guido uses FreeBSD -- not Linux.
*BSD sucks? Really? Then why are Yahoo! and Hotmail using FreeBSD and not Linux? You should avoid blanket comments like that -- they really make you look like a retard.
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I didn't mean the OSen were functionally equivalent. All I was pointing out was this:
Before switching to Lindows, the Windows user is running as root.
After switching to Lindows, the user is running as root.
Hence, the "boycott Lindows because it runs as root" argument is silly, because it didn't make things any worse.
That argument doesn't make much sense.
The only people that will actually use Lindows are the ex-Windows users, and they've already been running as root, so what's changed?
If anything, they won't participate any longer in the Great Windows Virus Network.
-CURRENT isn't a release. It's a cvs repository. It's not even guaranteed to compile.
It won't be free-as-in-beer, though, because there are expenses involved, and you're still going to have to pay someone to transfer money.
If you knew anything about Unix, you'd know that proper coding of a Unix application will allow it to be compiled on any Unix system. Linux users, usually too proud and haughty to acknowledge anything else, write lots of software that doesn't compile anywhere else. BSD users, when writing software, are more attuned to the topic of portability, and write code that compiles everywhere, including Linux. Example: Python. Guido uses FreeBSD -- not Linux.
*BSD sucks? Really? Then why are Yahoo! and Hotmail using FreeBSD and not Linux? You should avoid blanket comments like that -- they really make you look like a retard.
Hey coward -- he never said NT was specifically better or faster.