[svlug] Windows vs. Linux (no, really!)

[Michael K Vance]

> Reply:
>         "The cost of software is insignificant in comparison to other costs
> in a development shop."

Spoken like a true manager-droid.

> Personally, I find the same thing.  I think (also from limited exp.) that
> any development for Windows is hell.  My manager used this as an example:

(Spoken as someone who worked at Intel using Win32 tools this summer.)

This is sort of amusing. I shudder to think about the amount of time I spent
with broken tools under Win32. Whether it was continuous NT reboots while
trying to install things like Visual J++ (it required IE4--and then bombed
hard in the install after making me reboot three times), or buggy software
like Visual Cafe that continuously crashed, or the lack of a good "editor"
like XEmacs (closest was TextPad32), or even a use-able shell! Or how about
the sluggish performance from a PII-233 running NT 4.0 because of poor
swapping? I run the client AND the server on my P233-MMX running Linux almost
as fast...

I'm in heaven now that I'm working at home--Oracle 8 pre-release, XEmacs,
bash, and my blackdown JDK, and I never have to reboot to Windows.

m.

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and live for their secrets. They're all uptight." -Thom Yorke, Radiohead

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