Re: Linux vx Sun

Bob Martin wrote:
in 447293 20070911 084627 The Natural Philosopher <a@xxx> wrote:
felmon davis wrote:
On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:03:10 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Which is the actual answer,. Apart from that too similar to bother
with.7 years ago Solaris for a PC was a tad more stable than Linux.
Today? Linux is more than good enough. Use it.
that was a great summary (and terrible spelling)! thank you!

do people still say Windows is just a bootloader? doesn't that apply to
the Windows 9x days? not asking you to write a history of Windows (though
I would love to read it!) but just wondering about that bit.

Felmon
I don't know what the current attitude is.

But Windows has had to add, with legacy ompatibility, all the multiuser
multitasking security and memory management stuff. NT was a brave
attempt to get it sorted, but it still wasn't stable.

OS/2 managed it and was very stable.

But that was IBM.
.

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