DirectPC's low costs made it spread accross
Romania. Even with a fast uplink (fiber,
350MS ping to sattelite proxy IP, the download
rate is 10-20k/s for massive downloads using
download accelerator (max 40k/s), but for
browsing you can work something else and from
10 to 10 minutes to see another web page.
DirectPC sucks.
I just think Linus is one of those who doesn't gives a shit about money. I respect him for that, and of course for making the LinuxOS, but one Unix clone too many... Common. Who needs Linux ? there are other (some free and *better*) unices around.
You got it all wrong...
M$ is good if you wanna work a couple of ours
and then shut your system down, if you're looking
for a solid server try something free, and solid.
You may choose Linux. I choose FreeBSD. Tradition,
robustness, thousands of ports (if it doesnt compile on *BSD, then probably some Linux geek wrote it), security, set-up the server and let it do the job. With Linux you'll spend countless
hours upgrading weekly your kernel and RedHat patches.
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You could have skipped this one, he's right and there is nothing funny about it, imho.
DirectPC's low costs made it spread accross Romania. Even with a fast uplink (fiber, 350MS ping to sattelite proxy IP, the download rate is 10-20k/s for massive downloads using download accelerator (max 40k/s), but for browsing you can work something else and from 10 to 10 minutes to see another web page. DirectPC sucks.
I just think Linus is one of those who doesn't gives a shit about money. I respect him for that, and of course for making the LinuxOS, but one Unix clone too many ... Common. Who needs Linux ? there are other (some free and *better*) unices around.
You got it all wrong... M$ is good if you wanna work a couple of ours and then shut your system down, if you're looking for a solid server try something free, and solid. You may choose Linux. I choose FreeBSD. Tradition, robustness, thousands of ports (if it doesnt compile on *BSD, then probably some Linux geek wrote it), security, set-up the server and let it do the job. With Linux you'll spend countless hours upgrading weekly your kernel and RedHat patches.