>How many times is it gonna take before people stop comparing these two OSes? Agreed, it's getting boring. Everyone should know what is NT by now. > think it's been well documented that Linux is for people who lack to hack around with the internals of the OS s/lack/like/ I guess, but I don't agree with you. Agreed, Linux is used a lot by hobbyists and students; But that doesn't mean all Linux users are geeks. For admins, distributions now allow to setup servers in less than one hour, with little to no work. I don't mind looking at documentations and source to make the servers fit more closely our needs or even fix problems, but that's only because it's a possibility (yes, I have some background in software development). >and NT is for people who could care less and just want to get something done If you ask me, NT is for people that don't care of anything at all. Dunno what v.5 will be, but v.4 is the hell on earth:( Resource hungry, totally unergonomical, and when it crashes for real, you can format and reinstall from scratch. Poor excuse for an OS. >If I had a mission critical server, I guarantee I would not be running Linux... or NT for that matter. FreeBSD is a superior solution, and it rarely is mentioned here. Can't say anything about something I didn't try, but we use Linux at work, and I sleep good at night... Why FreeBSD didn't get all the press it should is another story, mostly political I think.
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When P3 will ship, Intel will stop making P2s, and people than want to stick with Intel will have to go for P3.
(That's exactly what happened with Pentium -> P2. Many people would buy plain Pentium if they still were manufactured...)
Agreed, it's getting boring. Everyone should know what is NT by now.
> think it's been well documented that Linux is for people who lack to hack around with the internals of the OS
s/lack/like/ I guess, but I don't agree with you. Agreed, Linux is used a lot by hobbyists and students; But that doesn't mean all Linux users are geeks.
For admins, distributions now allow to setup servers in less than one hour, with little to no work. I don't mind looking at documentations and source to make the servers fit more closely our needs or even fix problems, but that's only because it's a possibility (yes, I have some background in software development).
>and NT is for people who could care less and just want to get something done
If you ask me, NT is for people that don't care of anything at all. Dunno what v.5 will be, but v.4 is the hell on earth
>If I had a mission critical server, I guarantee I would not be running Linux... or NT for that matter. FreeBSD is a superior solution, and it rarely is mentioned here.
Can't say anything about something I didn't try, but we use Linux at work, and I sleep good at night...
Why FreeBSD didn't get all the press it should is another story, mostly political I think.
while(1) { printf("Do you want to reboot now ?\n"); }... Not!