dear people! I have just opened my MTU client, and figured out that through my comment, i caused a complete NONSENSE discussion at all.
1. I am not a zealot or whatever. I code on Linux and port it on MAC and WINDOWS. I do write solutions for customers across the whole 3 platform, and mostly I succeed because I have to figure out in advance which software (packages) are being supported and how far. 2. There are many open source projects out (don't ask where, look for yourself, you are old enough!) as well commercial software vendors who don't offer their products, or give support for Windows XP. 3. All of you know, that windows xp is by Microsoft not anymore supported. Neither with Security Updated, Enhancements with Software, SDK or whatever. and not only XP, also Win95,98,ME, and 2000 Professional (not the server editions). 4. Of course any OS has it's advantages and disadvantages. Gentoo is a rolling distribution, when it's set up it works nicely. Of course, you have to invest a lot of effort to get in what doesn't mean that Debian and Ubuntu, and the others are worse. Those who want to get packages maintained by others and love to get the System to run quickly is very good with the other distributions, and coding on those platforms make fun too. >From my personal point of view, I will never set up a gentoo machine as a server in a datacenter, I would rather use BSD Unix. But this is something that personally everybody has to decide for him/herself. Now, I hope that I put a line under this discussions and beg the kids between the age of 18 - 24 who are really impulsive to fire around with the guns on others to stop this nonsense thread. That doesn't leave a nice picture in the community. PS: However, I will read the next mails in the list according this subject but I will stop commenting it, because it's getting for me too childish. Tamer Am 13.01.2012 16:32, schrieb John Gordon: > In <4f0fbad0$0$29984$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com> Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: > >> Why is it that only Linux and Mac users are accused of being "zealots"? > > Perhaps because Windows, being in a position of market dominance, doesn't > *need* zealots. > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
