From: Randy Smith (cryofan@mylinuxisp.com)
Date: Sun Oct 20 2002 - 13:41:42 MDT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Osborn" <philosborn2001@yahoo.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: Tech centralisation
> Mandrake? As in Linux? Apart from the fact that you
> are in a small minority, as virtually everyone with
> whom I have ever discussed this who worked with both
> NT and Linux vastly preferred Linux, including system
> administrators for many of the BIG university or
> corporate networks, I don't recall that I specifically
Look I am not a programmer, and I am not a sysadmin. I have no ax to grind,
but I only want a simple, dependable and easily manipulable platform from
which to conduct research. Linux has only one advantage compared to NT, as
far as I can tell from my evaluations: it has more free source code for
certain types of interesting applications, and the internals are better
documented in many respects.
As far as stability is concened? Puh-leeze. All those halfbaked little open
source apps crashing all over the place on Mandrake? NT has it as far as
stability is concerned. Plus, there are severe hardware adaptablity problems
all over the place with Mandrake....
And as far as ease of configuration and adaptability to hardware goes, NT
easily beats Mandrake. Of course WinME, Win98 etc., are even more adaptable
to given hardware, but are not too stable....
> To me, it is utterly bizarre to see a reasonably fast
> Pentium with almost a Gig of RAM slow to a c r a w l,
> just because it's printing to a PostScript printer,
> or, worse yet, formatting a floppy. On my Amiga 1000,
> running at 7.14Mhz (clock - the processor ran at half
> that), with 1 Meg of RAM, in 1986, I ran over 30
> programs simultaneously once just as a test... THAT
> finally bogged the system down.
My evaluation shows that Mandrake eats more RAM than NT.
However, I can sympathize with the anti-MS feelings, and that is why I still
have Mandrake running---by not using Linux, we give away leverage, and give
away money.
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