Indeed, I think that too. We should do our own tests. Anyone able supplying any decent hardware for a server? then we install NT with IIS out of the box and linux with kernel 2.2.6 and Apache and samba also out of the box (no real tuning), then we do the tests, after that we do try to tune both platforms and do the tests again. Let's see what's the result... !
> It will keep inflicting its demand on Linux users to install just the right versions of dozens of libraries (almost all of which are NOT compatible with previous versions) to have a chance of working at all.
One thing is for sure : windows dll's and service packs often have the same problem. I hardly had to install any new versions of any library before in Linux. But you are right that incompatibility between (sometimes even minor) versions of libraries are real problems for an average user. Something has got to be done for that (cfr. Software for Redhat 5.1 is very unlikely to work fine for Redhat 5.0 and vice versa: I had to move to Redhat 5.1 or 5.2 from 5.0 to be able to run StarOffice 5.0: incompatiblities between glibc 2.0.5 and 2.0.7).
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Indeed, I think that too. We should do our own tests. Anyone able supplying any decent hardware for a server? then we install NT with IIS out of the box and linux with kernel 2.2.6 and Apache and samba also out of the box (no real tuning), then we do the tests, after that we do try to tune both platforms and do the tests again. Let's see what's the result ... !
> It will keep inflicting its demand on Linux users to install just the right versions of dozens of libraries (almost all of which are NOT compatible with previous versions) to have a chance of working at all.
One thing is for sure : windows dll's and service packs often have the same problem. I hardly had to install any new versions of any library before in Linux.
But you are right that incompatibility between (sometimes even minor) versions of libraries are real problems for an average user. Something has got to be done for that (cfr. Software for Redhat 5.1 is very unlikely to work fine for Redhat 5.0 and vice versa: I had to move to Redhat 5.1 or 5.2 from 5.0 to be able to run StarOffice 5.0: incompatiblities between glibc 2.0.5 and 2.0.7).