On 12/09/03 10:07 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> On Hindsite: I feel that the real power of Unix/Linux are the various
> small utilities like awk,sed etc... and by porting these utilities to
And the fact that they ship by default with those unix systems (or are
easily compiled and made available).
> win98/2k/xp, a lot of fizz is taken out of the discussion about the
> superiority of *nix'es over other OSes.
Not really. I will still hold on to standards compliance as a virtue.
Oh, and reliability, non blackbox nature, flexibility, customizability,
documentation and support and hardware reliability do matter.
When you can rip a lot of stuff out of Win32 (RPC anyone? IE?), then
Windows will look a lot better. In which case it will look more like
Unix.
Those who do not understand unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
-- Henry Spencer
Devdas Bhagat
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