On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:10:11PM -0400, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. wrote: > Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > > For certain kinds of things, Linux -- well, Unix and other > Unix-like operating systems -- is just _better_. Really.
Indeed. Linux runs perfectly well on a 256MB 800MHz Pentium-3. And if what you want to do involves inter-process communication, or shell programming, Linux is definitely the better platform. > "But why, when everything is so much easier with a GUI?" > > Because not everything is ... and some of us find a command-line > interface easier to work with even for tasks that a GUI > doesn't inherently suck at. With Linux, whether you're > using the CLI or the GUI at the moment, more control, more > power is at your fingertips than under Windows. That depends. I write cross-platform code for a living, most of which usually runs on a Linux box. But when I'm debugging I'll often run the code on my windows XP box; the "incremental compile and continue" interface I get from Windows Visual Studio is vastly superior to what I get from the gcc/g++/gdb Linux platform. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
