> From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 05:34:31AM -0600, The Fool wrote: > > > > From: Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > And the following bears repeating: The Windows registry is an > > > abomination. > > > > As compared to the linux method? Or the AS/400 method? AS/400's are > > an abomination. > > I don't know AS/400. But the linux method is more robust than the
Let us not speak of AS/400's for they are vile. > Windows registry method. Almost all of the configuration for my linux > system is stored in text files in the /etc/ directory, with some other > stuff stored in .* files in my /home/username/ directory. In total, it > comprises at most a few megabytes, so it is easy to backup. It is stored > in multiple files, so if one gets munged, all the others are still okay. > It is stored in ASCII text so I can edit it easily with any text editor > that I like. It is very rare in linux to have one program modifying the Ask the average human being to do this. He will stare back at you blankly. > config file of another (and even then, it can usually only happen if > you do something dumb as root), but in a registry system programs can > mess with others since it is all in 1 or 2 files. The vast majority Depends on which windows yer speaking of. NT+ has several registry 'hives'. > of linux programs' config files are well documented, so I can almost > always repair any damage that occurs by editing the file (in the rare > case that damage does occur). And since I run Debian with apt, I back > up the config file for the installed packages, and restoring a system > from scratch is simply a matter of copying my /etc/ and /home directory > config files in, copying in the packages config, and doing apt-get > dist-upgrade. That puts back all of my installed applications in one > shot, even updating to the latest versions of each. Try that in Windows! Theres always 'windows update'. (I know, I know). > There really isn't a lot of reason to run Windows on your home computer > any more. I use Windows at work because I don't have much choice. But BS. For every program written for linux there are several hundred written for windows. In particular things like 'autoCAD', 'WinAMP', etc. Windows NT never crashes. DirectX, and 99.99% of all games. > for home productivity use, linux can do 99% of what you can do with > Windows, and it does it much better in most cases. If you need to > exchange files with Windows users, that isn't really a problem: .xls > and .rtf programs work quite well in Linux, and if you just can't live > without MS Office (.doc, .ppt, .etc), there is always Open Office > http://www.openoffice.org/ which gives you file compatibility with MS > Office. Ew. Get your micro$oft office off of me.
