8 Mar
2001
8 Mar
'01
11:41 a.m.
From: Mike Ford <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com>
"maybe"
> The two largest open source projects, Linux and
Mozilla, both total
maybe
>3-4 million lines of code. It's estimated that
there are anywhere from
5 to
50 million
lines of code in Windows.
The way to fix windows ISN"T to play with the existing code, its to
document the user interface and program API, then start
from the best
kernal model you can find for expected hardware and build on that. Wait
a
minute, thats linux, never mind.
Having used of Caldara openlinux 2.3 I can sy they did a good job
getting closer to W9x in most ways bad.
W9x no matter what version and that includes WinME all suffer from
the same two basic problems in my book. The kernal is not well protected
from buggy apps and the file system is not protected
from buggy apps
crashing the kernal. The two things that NT and most of the unix
clones
seem to have fairly correct.
Allison