7 Dec
2005
7 Dec
'05
5:41 p.m.
"Hans Franke" wrote:
Hmm. To me Linux is just a 'Me-Too' x86 Unix ripoff. No real new
development here. And the same is ture for the desktop side. KDE
and Gnome are rather straight steal from Windoze.
mmm. please don't tell that to any of my customers who are running
linux on powerpc, arm, mips, dm642, etc... chips :-)
and, when you look at the performance of 2.6 kernels it's pretty damn
good and (my opinion) scales better than pretty much everything other
than solaris.
2.4 is a pig, I'll give you that, and has big vm issues, but 2.6 is a
huge improvement.
NT still a lot of vm and scaling issues as do most *nix kernels (with
the exception of solaris).
I'm not sure i'd call linux a unix ripoff anymore. That was true at one
time but not anymore.
and don't get me started on os x. i've been gettting hard crashes (i.e.
power cycle required) on a daily basis running 64 bit apps on my g5
imac... I love the 'new mac' but there's still work to be done there.
-brad