On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 15:07 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> 
> It has a universal component model, leading to a variety of universal 
> scripting languages. 

Leading to fast and easy propagation of viruses, worms, trojans, etc.
Linux has many scripting languages available to it that are older than
Windows is.

> It has a more powerful file system as well as a 
> more powerful permissions system. 

Maybe in the past, but certainly not today. There's a long list of file
systems for Linux as well as ACL support....

> The features of the file system and 
> permission system are actually well-integrated into the tools. It has 
> transactional features built in, so you can say "I need to write these 
> three files, add those three tags to the middle of that XML file, and 
> put three records in the SQL database over there, and I don't want 
> anyone to see any of the changes before they're all committed, and I 
> want them to all roll back if I dump core in the middle."

....including journaling file systems.

>  Lots of stuff 
> (hardware and software) Just Works, but I'll grant that's more a 
> business bit than a technical bit.
> 
> The fact that Linux lacks these things and you don't miss them in Linux 
> and don't use them in Windows is what I was talking about earlier.
> 

What is Linux lacking again? But now we digress.

PGA
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