On Thursday 29 July 2004 12:46, Christopher Nambale/Bushnet wrote: > Your view on linux being a hackers OS are pretty old fashioned in my > opinion. Yes, when we started out it was cool to spend weeks trying to get > a basic X windows to start before you even� thought about getting a window > manager to run correctly but that was 10 years ago. To catch my drift > please read the following post
It's not about being cool to be able to master an X server installation and configuration in the shortest amount of time possible, it's simply the nature of UNIX/Linux, but I digress. Over the years, there are certain things we now take for granted in Linux e.g. network card drivers, keyboard and mouse drivers. Sound drivers, well, maybe, depending on the sound application (playback, editing or recording), and depending on the codec library that ships with that distro (which isn't half as well compiled/tuned as those found under M$). Try setting up a transparent cache with bridging on Linux using a redundant protocol such as WCCP, and you'll soon realise that it might be easier to simply call NetApps and order a pre-setup proprietary cache box. Generally, it's relative, but the more complicated your application, the more work you'll need to put into Linux/UNIX; and that's not such a bad thing. Mark. --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
