Keep in mind that this is a fluff piece. Many of her articles are about features rather than functionality. I work as an admin in a mix Sun, Windows, *nix environment. Windows has some good and bad, and the others do as well.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay let's make a bullet list of reality instead of a bullet list of > self-congratulatory masturbation. > > > - That "silly reinstall thing" is exactly for NOT well-maintained > stations. If one maintains well an XP or 2000 station, it can run at top > performance for years and years, SP after SP. > - I have stations that were migrated from 2000 to XP, and others that > were migrated from XP to Vista, without any reinstallation involved. The > upgrade options are there, and they work a lot of times. Not every time, > for > sure, but a lot. > - "Supports more hardware" is a very different concept than "runs on > anything". Besides, each OS has it's own place. Why in hell would I want a > Windows OS on a router? Not only that, but the whole "running linux on > everything under the sun" is also debatable. > - She clearly doesn't know anything about Windows OS's. > - She also haven't heard of BartPE either, which really amazes me. > - Read previous bullet point > - Has she ever heard of "cmd" ? Or maybe even PowerShell? I don't think > so. > - There is software RAID on Windows, and it works in an ok-level. Linux > software RAID is definitely much better. > - For Windows there's NTFS. Period. It's tightly integrated with the > system and works. > - Virtualizers that are crippleware? Again, doesn't know squat. > - Another item that's just ignorable. Anyone care to explain something > that falls into this category? > - Without fear? LOL!!!! definitely NOT one-click and NOT without fear > on Linux... > - Does she really think DELL would install by hand each pc that's sold > with Windows? Seriously, is she for real? Never heard of Sysprep? damn.... > - She might be just as careless as someone else I replied to earlier... > - Compiz is cool indeed > - Agree with the multiple workspaces, disagree with the rest for more > than obvious reasons... > - Anyone care to explain on this one? I thought java tools would run > everywhere... > - Linux is definitely NOT for beginners. Intermediate, yes. > - The cost is one of the differences that come with closed source > software. The rest is debatable. > - ??? is this about clustering? > - read above > > Again, each OS has it's own place. But before all, if you must really make > bad comments about the other, you better know both sides to make comments > that make at least some sort of sense. > > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-19-034-35-PS-CY-SW >> >> flame on! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
