Re: Hand Mafe vs Algorithmic Conversions

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, drsquare
<now...@nowhere.co.uk>
 wrote
on Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:10:06 +0000
<pl5...@4ax.com>:
>On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 23:43:37 +0100, in alt.ascii-art,
> ("CeeJay" <use...@ceejay.cjb.NOSPAMnet>) wrote:
>
>>> LOL!!! ?:)
>>>          .
>>>      -|-  .
>>>      / \   O
>>>
>>> Laughed my head off....
>>> I did have a Beta copy of XP though...not yet decided to go XP...
>>
>>I find it VERY stable (incredible considering is M$ .. hope they make
>>it a tradition) and a little slower than the other Windows versions ..
>>which I can live with since stability matters more to me.
>>
>>I also run a linux box and a linux shell account so if anyone feels to
>>need to convince of linux's superiority .. don't - I'm already a
>>believer. I just use whatever OS suits the purpose.
>
>What purposed does XP suit that Linux doesn't? With Linux, stability
>doesn't come at the expense of speed.

Erm....Windows compatibility?  Oh, wait, there's Wine (www.winehq.com).

POSIX compliance?  No, Linux has that, too.

COM?  Maybe.  I do like the idea of IIOP, though, and I'll have
to see if I can get back into it again (I dabbled in it for
my own amusement some time ago, and it's fairly easy to work
with but does require knowledge of IDL).

Standards?  In spades, although it depends to some extent on
what one calls a "standard", as MS Word is also a standard,
because of its de facto standard nature.  But it's not
very well documented. :-)  By contrast, HTML, XML, SGML,
TeX, and such are very standardized.

Speed?  My understanding at this time is that XP is *slower* than
Win2k -- and Win2k wasn't noted for its high speed, although it
was faster than NT.

The only thing XP has that Linux doesn't is the respect given to an
entity manufactured/developed/designed by a firm which is tops in
an industry in sales.  And Linux might have that soon, if it
doesn't already -- IBM in particular is supporting Linux, as well
as HP, and Dell and Compaq in their own ways, as well.

-- 
ewi...@aimnet.com -- insert random misquote here
EAC code #191       9d:14h:08m actually running Linux.
                    This is a pithy statement.  Please watch where you pith.

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