On 21 Dec 2000, at 10:09, Nix wrote:
Anyway... (Got a little sidetracked there) There are still areas (even in 2.4 series kernels) where NT (and other enterprise class OS's) will legitimately outperform Linux. By 2.6 series Linux might be the most scalable OS out there, but don't stick your head in the sand... Linux is good.. great even, but it's not the Ultimate do EVERYTHING os..... yet....
Hi, first you are right, there are other OS that are a better choice than linux for some tasks. (NFS server implementation is not so nice under Linux and the fine grained SMP on Solaris is a charme). The article states that 2K is more *usable* than (the tested) Linux distros for "experienced" users and admins. Now it may be right, that a not experienced user can setup a network better under 3K (in the case everything works flawlessly). Making the lack of a GUI and text/script based configuration the reason to call something "less usable" on one hand and on the other hand stating that 2K is more secure out of the box than the Linux distros and that win32 apps because they have the same interface wheras "often Linux apps are only portet to Linux .... Staroffice for example can be identified as an original windows applikation", "error messages are written to be only understood with very good Linux knowledge" (that looks like 2k error messages can be understood by unexperienced users), "online help is unsatisfying under Linux", and so on make the study ridculous. In short this article is a laudatio to 2K and its active directory system, and it emphasizes every small little advantage of 2K (and there are lots of them, specialy for not experienced users) and ignores every advantage of Linux. This study implies the complete contrary to what has been published before (except probably MS advertisments). mike