On Thursday 30 August 2001 03.11, Clint Tinsley wrote:
I think it has been said here that much of problems are attibutable to the wetware at the keyboard, not the operating system, be it Linux or Windows. Incidentally, my Windows 98 SE is system is an upgrade that started out life as DOS/Windows 3.1, upgraded many times with newer system board, hard drives, adapter cards, CD-ROMs, DVD, etc. et. al, and operating systems - Windows95, 95a, 98, 98SE, all without a hit, never formatted C or reinstalled Windows! I don't think I could have done the same thing starting out with an early version of Linux such as Slackware or Calderea Open Base 1.x (I have a copy or each) and made the same claim... There would have definitely been some destructive (read: blow the hard drive) reinstalls a long the way if not recompilations of the operating system.
Did I ever tell you about my yard broom? I've had it over twenty years! Mind you its had 7 new heads and 3 handles. Seriously though, we aren't talking like-for-like. When I installed SuSE 7.2 back in July it took under 30 minutes to have a fully functional system running. OK, my scanner had stopped working and I had to configure this and that to get the set-up how I liked - a few hours effort or so. Now, if I installed Windows 98SE or Windows 2000 Professional it would take me say 30-40 minutes to install. But guess what? I haven't got a damned application installed and can do bugger all with it! Oh, and how many Windows boxes can run for 220 days without needing a reboot? M M