I gotta agree with Joe here. I've crashed Windows NT and 2000 before (haven't done it with XP, yet, but I don't use it that often), but I can also crash my Linux setup. Usually by doing a Poser build. :-) The debug version of Poser weighs in at 40Meg, and if I'm running Emacs and DDD/gdb while doing a build, *something* will crash (sometimes X itself). And lately, my Linux box has taken to freezing if I FTP files off of it while a screen saver is running.
On the whole, I'd say the two are about equally reliable, in my own limited experience. And given that just yesterday I was able to build 5 configurations of Poser on my Windows PC while gcc chugged away on just 1, I definitely admit that I prefer developing on Windows to Linux. -- Keith At 5:38 PM -0800 2/6/02, Joe wrote: >--- Max Bian wrote: > > Forget about the windows developers. They have paid the > > high price tag for that OS already. > > > > How about developers who use Linux? Are there Linux > > versions of these tool coming? All I heard so far > > are "NT", "2000", "XP", "CW", ... > > > > And by the way, even fewer reboots if you use Linux! > >This is so OT that I hate to say anything about it, but... (don't read >on if you will be offended). > >1st, the supposed reliability issues with Windows have been greated >exaggerated. One of my computers is running Win98 24x7 and I don't >even have to reboot it once a month. Of course, I prefer my Win2K >machine because it *is* more reliable -- it also runs 24x7 and I have >never had to reboot it (except when certain sw apps demand a reboot >during installation). > >2nd, the supposed stability and security and reliability of Linux is >greatly exaggerated. Linux is supposed to be so amazingly wonderful, >so reliable, so error-free, so secure, etc., but it is *not*. It is >just another OS, written by error-prone human beings. It is more >suitable than some for certain situations and less suitable for other >situations. (See http://news.com.com/2100-1001-830130.html for a >report out just today that the US government is so concerned about the >security holes in Linux (and all open source sw) that DARPA is funding >a project to help fix it.) > >3rd, Palm Inc. can not "Forget about the windows developers". The >largest number of developers of Palm OS apps are using Windows. Peter >Epstein and others have already explained why the one tool currently >only exists on Windows and why it may stay that way. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
