On Wednesday 14 March 2007 06:39:36 pm M Harris wrote: > On Wednesday 14 March 2007 16:56, Doug McGarrett wrote: > > If Linux > > is ever to have a significant proportion of the market, it must be at > > least as big as the Mac market to survive, and it _must be user-friendly_ > > or it will be as dead as CPM and DOS. > > Hog wash ... > > ... MAC gave up "being" MAC and became MAC OSX (built on FreeBSD) > because > [in part] Linux market share (on the desktop) had exceeded MAC. MAC shifted > to a unix-like format. The point is that MAC is a unix-like OS just as > Linux is ... and they are both gaining significant market share threatening > M$. Comparing a full multiuser true preemptive multitasking OS (like the > Linux or FreeBSD Kernel) to CPM or DOS is like comparing a Ferrari to > soap-box racer.
...and don't forget that WinNT (XP/Vista/2003) is not preemptive multitasking either. At least not at the kernel level like Linux 2.6+ is. I was just trying to kill some processes on a Win2003 system today and had to wait for the kernel to finish some tasks before it would die. -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http://www.grassfire.org/142/petition.asp http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
