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Okay a few things, first things first one of the paradigms of programming states that there are roughly 10 bugs to every 150 or so lines of code, Gore is right, if opened, Windows would have an exponentially growing series of bugs and vulnerabilities, which would end up in the millions, by that same token, Linux should have almost 1 million of these issues. As I read through each of these arguments, I saw some good points and some that I less than agree with, but I think one thing is clear, the arguments in the computer industry are getting like the idealogical arguments in many of the other fields such as Nature versus Nurture in psychology. The whole notion 1 ideal leading to paradigm shift is very mislead. For one thing people are entirely to opinionated. I use linux, BSD, and windows, and you don't hear me here in the forums explicitly saying one is "better" than the other. Thing about this. With somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 million lines of code (I've also heard around 30), it is an engineering feat of the highest degree that windows works at all (you try debuging a project 1/1000 that size and see how much work it is). I think the whole argument is a moot point for the simple reason that the computer industry has enough problems without all of the knowledgeable people squabling amongst themselves. We should agree to disagree and leave it at that.
I have problems with windows, who doesn't, I have more problems with the M$ strategy than with the O.S. itself.
I know someone who was an engineer at DEC with David Cutler, and refuses to use Windows because of its similarities to VMS(also from DEC). He's a brilliant (MIT educated) individual who has unmatched experience in the industry, and refuses to use Windows for a reason such as that. Security is not part of a design model, it's an addition...the strictest definition of an OS is: "a piece of software that manages the user to hardware interaction" --just check the Silverschatt?, Galvin, et al. text that is sometimes used in OS courses , it makes the system operable...imagine that...and everything else is an additive.
My advice is this: all of the operating systems are good in their own way, accept them for their flaws and weaknesses, but still be respectable for the others, learn enough about them and you'll be capable of taking part in either side of the argument.
I'm choosing to ride the fence on this one because as Maestr0 has put it "No one likes an OS nazi".
Or any Nazi for that matter.
More *nix vs. Windows, fun for the whole family, with a history lesson too. :)
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-Maestr0
how about an AIX v AS400 debate for a change (personally I like those big IBM AS400 boxes, they make excellent coffee tables) or zOS v Some other mainframe system, or 2k v Aegis , NachOS v Xinu
any one???
What about the bring back to life the goold old Commodore 64 v Sinclair Spectrum fight, now that was something worth arguing about.
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Three... Ok..... Still a silly thread that has been argued over a gazillion time here....
AIX and the AS400 boxes are pretty even depending on what you're doing. I'm partial to AIX over AS400 though because, well, UNIX VS anything else but BeOS always wins.Quote:
Originally posted here by R0n1n
how about an AIX v AS400 debate for a change (personally I like those big IBM AS400 boxes, they make excellent coffee tables) or zOS v Some other mainframe system, or 2k v Aegis , NachOS v Xinu
any one???
What about the bring back to life the goold old Commodore 64 v Sinclair Spectrum fight, now that was something worth arguing about.
ZOS ...
C64 whips that wussy ass.
Amiga 1000 kicks the **** out of NeXT.
Ah BeOS... so much promise, so little anything else.
At least we still have QNX.
cheers,
catch
What about a NeXTStep/Mac OSX debate???? Any takers????
/me evil laugh
Awww Catch You know it was responsive as hell!
OS X I think could beat NeXT but I'd need to play more. I'm not a Mac person but OS X is very nice from what I've seen and read.