Re: [SLE] My patience has run out
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:20:54 -0800 Salman Khilji
But what I find interesting and disturbing,
at work don't crash. I work with scientists. And they never say their machines crash. They are doing constant scientific data analysis, and technical document preparation. I should ask more of them if their machines crash. But so far, I have been very disappointed to find, of the three guys that I talk to regularly about
machines run for weeks without crashing. This disappoints me because I can't honestly argue to them that Linux is more stable. In fact, with the instability of the flagship Konqueror,
is that out Windows machines this, that they say their that they would most
certainly encounter if they tried a modern Linux, while clearly it is not representative of the stability of the underlying Linux, they would likely get a bad taste about that.
BTW, long gone are those days that Windows machines would crash a lot. Today Windows 2000 almost never crashes in daily work. XP is 2000 based and is supposed to be more stable, so things in this respect don't look good for Linux.
Salman
I did not enjoy the "stability that you have with the forementioned Windows OS'es. With Xp, I constantly get crashes (BSOD) and reboots. All of my hardware is on the HCL too and with the latest drivers. Linux on the other hand tends to play nice with my hardware. Being a former MCSE, I was very disappointed with Xp. As far as 2K, I've seen MAJOR headaches develop with it too! I have done roll outs of 2K and not been too impressed! I have a question for you and not being sarcastic, Why are you still using Linux if your opinion of it is so bad? Marshall "Nothing is impossible, We just do not have all the anwsers to make the impossible, possible."
Why are you still using Linux if your opinion of it is so bad?
My opinion is not "so bad". I use Linux bcz I HATE windows and all Windows based applications. There are a few things like the absence of a WinZip like utility that annoy me from time to time, but otherwise my experience for Software development has been very positive with Linux. Salman
Salman Khilji wrote:
based applications. There are a few things like the absence of a WinZip like utility that annoy me from time to time, but otherwise my experience for Software development has been very positive with Linux.
ark, lnxzip Included in SuSE. -- Silviu Marin-Caea Systems Engineer Linux/Unix http://www.genesys.ro Phone +40723-267961
On Thursday 31 October 2002 07:06, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
Salman Khilji wrote:
based applications. There are a few things like the absence of a WinZip like utility that annoy me from time to time, but otherwise my experience for Software development has been very positive with Linux.
ark, lnxzip
Included in SuSE.
Yeah, I wondered about that. I've been installing SuSE since version 6 (or maybe 5...), and I recall that ark was always available, but the YaST description always gave the impression that it was out-dated, and included only for historical compatibility reasons. So, I never bothered to load it. Yet, I've seen mention of ark as being used to open old ark files and new zip files. What's the poop? Is it still maintained and in regular use? What's the most useful all-round [un]zipper/archiver for those who don't use fancy features, but who need the standard features for both Linux and Windows compressed file handling? /kevin
ark, lnxzip
Included in SuSE.
Sorry but none of these utilities match the quality of WinZip. Try downloading a large zip or tar file. An example would be www.cs.wust.edu/~schmidt and download ACE. These utilities take forever to load the zip file and display its contents---let alone the unzipping part. WInzip make it very easy to create an archive of a folder...simply right click and choose Add to Zip....a new zip file is found in the same directory as the foler itself. In all of the GUI utilities that I have used on Linux, you have to first open the app, then select File | New, then give it a name. The click Add files....and browse down a deep hierarchy to the folder of your choice....then select the folder....and then the folder is zipped. Only to find half of the time, the darn things crashes if you want to zip a large folder (can't recall whether it was Karchiver, or ark that was constantly crashing on a large directory that I wanted to Zip) i was annoyed by the instability of all Linux Zip-like programs so I gave up. I use tar -xvf xxxx.tar. If its zipped then I gunzip it first. Its ugly. But it works. I also tried Karchiver and it also sucked. Has anyone of you actually used WinZip? I almost want to write one from scratch myself. The only thing is that I am not familiar with the zip file and tar file format. I definitely DO NOT want to write a wrapper on top of a command line program. If these were some C/C++ library that handled the archiving part for me, then I could myself write a kickass Winzip like GUI using Qt. Salman
On Friday 01 November 2002 03.43, Salman Khilji wrote:
If these were some C/C++ library that handled the archiving part for me, then I could myself write a kickass Winzip like GUI using Qt.
Take a look at libz and go for it :)
In a previous message, Salman Khilji wrote:
I use tar -xvf xxxx.tar. If its zipped then I gunzip it first. Its ugly. But it works.
Why not tar -zxvf xxxx.tar.gz? One step, simple :-) I agree that desktop programs are useful, however. Although there are already quite a few around, such as the "File roller" that comes with Gnome2 in SuSE 8.1 (not sure about earlier versions any more). John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Knossos: escape the ever-changing labyrinth before the Minotaur catches you!
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