OS wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have to work with a crowd who's basic attitude seems to be 'take me now
> Bill'. They cannot understand why I like to try / use Mozilla despite its
> problems, they cannot understand why I have a colourful screen background and
> the worst sin of all - not using Windows Explorer and opening a seperate window
> for every directory.
>
> So now you know what I'm up against !
>
> The latest 'Linux is crap because' are :
>
> 1) 'Linux is only capable of blocking'. I thought Unix became non blocking about
> 1980, but I'm not sure. If it did I assume Linux is as well.
i don't understant you here. non Blocking IO ?
>
> 2) NT / 2000 are completely object oriented from the ground up. Linux / Unix
> are 'monolithoc monstrosities that wouldn't know an object it it bit them'. I
> really don't know if the Linux kernel is OO or not.
NT OOP ? :-)
Zin 95/98/NT is monolitic. Zin2000 use 730 to 750 Mb following the
install options. Very modular indeed...
Linux is a set of packages. You can install whatever you want from 20 to
1500 Mb (but then you have thousands of applcations). => really modular.
>
> 3) 'Linux / Unix is only capable of non pre-emptive scheduling, which is crap
> compared to the vastly superior MS models'. Again, I have no answer to this.
Unix, and Lonix, have always used preemtive multitasking whereas zin3.1
use cooperative multitasking (ie apps decide whether they let other apps
running ...). Win95/98 is a little better but any DOS apps can freeze
the system (in asm, cli will kill zindoz but not Linux). So do win32
apps despite MS said ZIn9x run in protected mode and is a progress from
zin3.1. However, they said NT is really protected from it applications
(so Win95/98 is not ...). But they publically advise to reboot NT each
week else it eats all memory. As for Win95/98, they take 3years to find
out it reboot after 49days ... However, there are Unix boxes that are up
since years (there are several running for 4+ years under FreeBSD and
Linux). Uptime are a indicator on the stability of the system
(protection between apps, scheduling policy, ...)
> Please give me some info. so I can answer these neanderthals correctly,
>
> Thanks,
>
> Owen
