| Sir Chewbury Gubbins 2005-04-07, 5:54 pm |
| Jacob Oost <zork@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
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> Sir Chewbury Gubbins wrote:
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> Ah, I see the BSD propaganda has been sufficiently lodged into your head.
LOL - not quite  I started using linux in (I think) 93, when I
installed the SLS distro on an old 386. I tracked development
religiously through slackware until 1998 where everything went a bit Red
Hat. At that point, as I was moving from my job as a UNIX admin to a job
as Systems Director, I needed to choose a primary platform and I chose
FreeBSD because it's Open Source but with a little more stability in the
core team. Seven years later, with several hundred boxes running some
extremely high profile websites (300 hack attempts a day on some) and
we've not had a single moment of unscheduled downtime or successful
exploit. My favour of BSD has been earned by the system.
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> Why?
Because....
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and computers for working.
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> The PC had a run of great games in the 90s that is unparalleled on any
> system, I include the NES and SNES in that.
Certainly does, but at the time when I owned PCs, I ran linux on them
and there were NO commercial games for linux pre 1998l
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> NOT bollocks. IDC says Linux became the number 2 desktop OS in 2003,
> and should have 6% of the desktop OS market in 2007.
Jesus, that's scary. Good, but scary.
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> Geez, you Apple people tick me off, you're so ignorant of anything that
> isn't Apple.
Excuse me? I moved to Apple hardware when OSX was released because it's
the OS that computer geeks like me have been waiting for for years. It's
a rock solid UNIX base with an awesome GUI. My company has somewhere in
the region of 80 desktops (and the aforementioned couple of hundred
servers). The desktops are split roughly 20 Windows (for the suits) 50
macs (for half of the developers, designers and artworkers) and 10 linux
boxes (some of the coders). The linux boxes take *substantially* more
admin time than any of the others, largely due to them running bloated
crap like KDE and Gnome, and having their system settings stuffed up by
crashes in the various gui configuration modules.
Linux works well (really well) as a server, but once you start sticking
ridiculous windows managers and the like on top, it all starts to come
apart. These days, Linux suffers from exactly the same problem as
windows - trying to support an infinite number of random hardware. The
Apple systems benefit from having the hardware made by the guys who make
the software - the same situation as with Sun kit.
Choobs
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