[luau] Dvorak: Is Linux your Next OS?

[Jimen Ching]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Warren Togami wrote:
>smoothly.  Even the latest Mandrake 8.2, despite being vastly improved in
>all respects, still needs some Unix knowledge to customize into anything
>useful.

Are you comparing apples to apples?  If you need Unix knowledge to
customize something, you are probably customizing something specific to
Unix.  A user would not customer the same thing on Windows.

>use Linux.  Now if you have Windows stability problems, it is almost
>always due to 1) Hardware problems 2) Crappy Drivers, or 3) Spyware and
>Viruses.

Hardware problems will affect Linux just as much.

But crappy drivers and spyware/viruses are things that an OS should handle
with elegance.  An OS is more than just a VM or a scheduler.  When people
talk about instability, they are usually refering to the device drivers
and security.  This IS the measure of an OS's stability.

--jc
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