On Wednesday 14 March 2007 06:39:36 pm M Harris wrote:
On Wednesday 14 March 2007 16:56, Doug McGarrett wrote:
If Linux is ever to have a significant proportion of the market, it must be at least as big as the Mac market to survive, and it _must be user-friendly_ or it will be as dead as CPM and DOS.
Hog wash ...
... MAC gave up "being" MAC and became MAC OSX (built on FreeBSD) because [in part] Linux market share (on the desktop) had exceeded MAC. MAC shifted to a unix-like format. The point is that MAC is a unix-like OS just as Linux is ... and they are both gaining significant market share threatening M$. Comparing a full multiuser true preemptive multitasking OS (like the Linux or FreeBSD Kernel) to CPM or DOS is like comparing a Ferrari to soap-box racer.
...and don't forget that WinNT (XP/Vista/2003) is not preemptive multitasking either. At least not at the kernel level like Linux 2.6+ is. I was just trying to kill some processes on a Win2003 system today and had to wait for the kernel to finish some tasks before it would die. -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http://www.grassfire.org/142/petition.asp http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org