From: Christopher Whipple (crw@well.com)
Date: Sun Oct 20 2002 - 19:55:59 MDT
This is where I must obligatorily step in and... well...
*cough* OSX, OSX *cough cough*
:)
-crw.
On Sunday, October 20, 2002, at 03:41 PM, Randy Smith wrote:
>
> ----- 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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