Is your X faster than Windows in 2D? I must have misconfigured my XFree then...my 3.3.5 and 4.0 *feels* a tad slower than 98 or NT - I'm comparing the speed when I try to do opaque moves or resizes.
NT moved the Graphical layer in the *kernel* ("why does it lock?"). That's not where it belongs. You should conpare to WinNT 3.5;-).
The whole idea of someone associated with sendmail criticising Linux/OSS for being isolated from end users is quite absurd.
Sendmail is IMHO a good example of a very stable and configuratble, but very hard to learn app.
-- Graphical user interfaces, they get all the glory, but in this world the UNIX apps do all the work... -- Rico Tudor (BeOS developer)
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Stability is the other one. mico-c++ was never as stable as we'd need it. Then why not adopt another ORB? like ORBit? It seems to be a nice small CORBA implementation (although I never used it intensively). Are those guys so proub they wouldn't use stuff from "the other camp"? Arjan
There you have the big advantage of *nixes! When I started off about two years ago I knew nothing about unix. After a month I started to see a certain patern there. After half a year I didn't use Windoze anymore... Maybe M$ people just need to get back to the roots, a suitable OS that knows YOU're in charge, not some kind of wizard consuming space on you harddisk.
And something about the packages: as a redhat user I use RPM. But by now there are so many of those thingies that it's hard to find a set of RPMs that suits my configuration (since I use RH5.0). Using tar balls is almost as easy for me.
On the first two points I should agree. Your third statement (programming), however is not what I experienced. Windows API is very closed, you can't really find out what you're doing (just try). The *DSB/Linux approach gives you much more insight in what the system is doing.
I (and many more, conserning the high amount of linux machines at software componies (I've read 40% of them uses Linux in some way for software development)) am enjoying Linux development much more than I ever enjoyed Windows development. It's just that open source apps are more opague...
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Is your X faster than Windows in 2D? I must have misconfigured my XFree then...my 3.3.5 and 4.0 *feels* a tad slower than 98 or NT - I'm comparing the speed when I try to do opaque moves or resizes.
NT moved the Graphical layer in the *kernel* ("why does it lock?"). That's not where it belongs. You should conpare to WinNT 3.5 ;-).
And WP does quite a good job on SGML too!!!
The whole idea of someone associated with sendmail criticising Linux/OSS for being isolated from end users is quite absurd.
Sendmail is IMHO a good example of a very stable and configuratble, but very hard to learn app.
--
Graphical user interfaces, they get all the glory, but in this world the UNIX apps do all the work... -- Rico Tudor (BeOS developer)
Stability is the other one. mico-c++ was never as stable as we'd need it. Then why not adopt another ORB? like ORBit? It seems to be a nice small CORBA implementation (although I never used it intensively). Are those guys so proub they wouldn't use stuff from "the other camp"? Arjan
And why are lots of M$ employees using Linux, then?
Check this out: http://slashdot.org /article.pl?sid=99/09/23/1452234&mode=nested.
There you have the big advantage of *nixes! When I started off about two years ago I knew nothing about unix. After a month I started to see a certain patern there. After half a year I didn't use Windoze anymore... Maybe M$ people just need to get back to the roots, a suitable OS that knows YOU're in charge, not some kind of wizard consuming space on you harddisk.
And something about the packages: as a redhat user I use RPM. But by now there are so many of those thingies that it's hard to find a set of RPMs that suits my configuration (since I use RH5.0). Using tar balls is almost as easy for me.
On the first two points I should agree. Your third statement (programming), however is not what I experienced. Windows API is very closed, you can't really find out what you're doing (just try). The *DSB/Linux approach gives you much more insight in what the system is doing.
I (and many more, conserning the high amount of linux machines at software componies (I've read 40% of them uses Linux in some way for software development)) am enjoying Linux development much more than I ever enjoyed Windows development. It's just that open source apps are more opague...