Re: novell-suse linux dead meat?
From: Darrell Stec (darrell_stec_at_webpagesorcery.com)
Date: 04/09/05
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Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:24:15 -0400
After serious contemplation, on or about Friday 08 April 2005 11:11 am
nntpmail@epix.net wrote:
>> Then get to my special requirements for programming. On Windows (I'm
>> ignoring the costs associated with 16 years of DOS products purchased)
>> my programming editor cost $189 and $49 to $99 for updates every year or
>> so. C/C++ compilers, debuggers, and so on, usually incorporated in an
>> IDE: ranging in price from $300 to $900 when bought as a 'system'
>> (Borland, versions 1, 2, 3 and 4 of C++ Builder, version 1 and 3 of
>> Delphi, M$ Visual C++ of which I only bought one and never touched their
>> programming products again, $129 for a student version 5). That all
>> totaled up to something around $3000. I have never had to pay for any of
>> this under Linux and most of the tools are far superior to what I had
>> under DOS and Windows.
>
> And your income writing Windows software vs that from writing linux
> software? It's only been the last couple years that linux IDEs have come
> into their own. Before that, imo one would have had a hard time
> convincing the average programmer that knowing emacs was preferable
> career-wise to, say, Visual Basic.
That depends upon the nature of the programming. For instance writing for
the Internet (perl, php, etc.) commands the same amount of income in either
case, however if one's work computer utilized Linux rather than Windows,
the "tools" represented a significant savings.
Naturally if one is writing Windows applications vs Linux application, what
you say is true. Even the want ads for programming positions bares that
out. It is difficult nonetheless to make blanket statements about the
programming field. Take writing for microchip and other control devices,
with a good emulator and compiler it doesn't matter which OS one uses.
However Linux would seem to be the hands down winner as far as cost goes.
And as far as the compatibility issue, what you say is true for someone who
has bought their computer with Windows already installed. However if you
have a shop that puts computers together and are trying to save your
customers some money (and at the same time put more of that money in your
own pocket) you can find that installing Windows can be a disaster. There
are so many combinations of peripherals and boards that one can purchase
that experimenting can be bad for business. While one combo of video card,
sound card and I/O controller might work, switch something and Windows
won't even install with no clue as to why. And since manufactures often
switch chips from one board to another even within the same model number,
what worked with the batch you bought yesterday, won't today. Naturally
the same applies to Linux.
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