Subject: Windows vs Unix
From:Charles Booher
h-64-105-140-243.lnoclli.covad.net
Tue Jul 3 12:25:05
My second computer was a VA Linux box. I tried to run
SCO Unix on my first computer but that did not work out
for a number of reasons.
When Windows 3.0 was young I was working on various
applications for Sun, HP, Silicon Graphics and all those
other soon to be defunct Unix Workstation vendors. I was
one of the first guys to write a P.O. for Rack mounted
Linux boxes, and I have done a lot of developement with
X-Windows, Motif, GNU, and all the GNU Toys. I started
learning Windows 3.0 and worked my way through all the
other MS developement tool kits starting with the C/C++
7.0 compiler and Borland Compilers.
I have been working in both Unix and Windows for the Last
10 years.
Windows is a better software system. Linux is free and
the only use I have had for it in the last four years was
to set up a cheap router using an obsolete scrap computer.
Unix does very little that is usefull to the average
computer user.
Unix is not a new technology.
Linux is just a free rewrite of the Unix system.
Where are the application packages for Linux? They are
mostly a pile of student written science fair experiments
scattered on a large number of obscure web site. So you
can download the source to LaTex. Who cares? People buy
computers to run applications. They don't buy computers
to run compilers, although Microsoft does make better
compilers for x86 than GNU.
MSDN is a better development environment than GNU,
Better software tools create better software.
People don't care how well an operating system works if
there are no useful applications.
So how is Richard Stallman doing with his Hurd Operating
system?
The entire GNU-Linux system is nothing more than a
science fair experiment run by various techno-geeks. As a
science fair experiment GNU-Linux has its uses.
I have looked very deeply into both systems and Microsoft
has the better system.
Regards,
Charles
