On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Phillip M. Vector wrote: [...] > So what benefit do you get now from running Linux?
For me, as a serious developer, it's simply the best. I was on a Linux Mint box before my current one (MacBook Pro), and an XP box before that (mostly). Mint was hands down the fastest and most stable. Awesomely, the rocket controls are still there, under the GUI veneer, so it was the most configurable too. > I never delved into it because I didn't want to basically relearn DOS > again. :) If it doesn't take a few hours to install anymore, what is the > benefit behind it? Speed. Stability. Control. It's a *real* operating system. The MacBook is fine, but not up to Mint. XP is at the bottom. They're all dandy, but give me a Linux machine with VMWare for windows (if you even need it), any day of the week. > and no. I'm not being sarcastic. I'm honestly curious. I may start dual > booting my machine. Heh. That's what I'd done for a while for a few years... just sorta checking the distros out every now and again. They have all been steadily improving, but Mint (a flavor of Ubuntu) blew me away. Didn't detect any sarcasm, but I've sorta got ESP, so no surprise there. Thanks for the heads up for those less connected to the universe. Heh. :-) -- Life has become the ideology of its own absence. Theodor Adorno ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:312528 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
