Seriously, though, I think it's safe to say that "your mileage may vary". It certainly doesn't take 2 minutes to compile and install all of the dependencies along with PHP. It also doesn't take me 6 minutes to restart my version of Windows (2 minutes, tops). Besides, this particular comparison is fundamentally flawed anyway... you don't have to restart windows to install PHP, Apache, or MySQL.
But now I'm just splitting hairs, so I'll stop. :-)
Cheers, Pete.
Robert Cummings wrote:
Time to shutdown, reboot, and log into admin account on windows on an AMD 2400+: 6 minutes 37 seconds
Time to ./configure AND compile apache 1.3.28 under linux: 30 seconds
Time to ./configure AND compile php 4.3.3 under linux: 2 minutes 16 seconds
Time to ./configure AND compile mysql 4.0.15a under linux: 7 minutes 34 seconds
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Availability of computer during windows reboot: 0%
Availability of linux computer during compilations: anywhere from 50% to 90%
I think your math with respect to 1,000 times is off by a little. maybe 999 >:)
Cheers, Rob.
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 09:34, Becoming Digital wrote:
All security advantages aside, I prefer linux because everytime I install a new program or service I don't need to reboot :)
Yeah, but in the time you spend resolving RPM package dependencies, re-compiling the application, checking in and out of CVS, etc, all trying to install the damn thing once, you could have rebooted WinBlows 1,000 times. ;)
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Cummings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Raditha Dissanayake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 01:09, Raditha Dissanayake wrote:
relax guys,
I have been dying to say "You can fix all of your problems by formatting your computer and installing a linux distribution." On this list for ages :-)
but the fact remains that an out of the box installation of any of the linux distros are far more secure than anything putout by that redmond company.
All security advantages aside, I prefer linux because everytime I install a new program or service I don't need to reboot :)
Cheers, Rob.
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