[svlug] Why do you guys Linux so much ?

[Richard Sharpe]

Hi,

Perhaps Tri should change jobs and then he will not have to worry about 
Linux any more.

Windows is my primary development platform at work, but then I use vxWorks 
and Eclipse as a development environment. I also use Visual Studio for 
some stuff and Mac OS X for other work (using xCode etc), and we use Linux 
(indeed, I recently submitted a patch for the USB Storage driver for 
Linux to allow for greater than 2TiB devices, although it was a 
co-worker who suggested the actual problem).

Windows is a pain. Mac OS X is a pain. Linux is a pain. Each has different 
types of pain.

Windows crashes too much. I have 2GB of memory but it still has problems 
with running out of memory. However, it has a slick integration of Asian 
Languages, and since I am studying Chinese, it is very easy to write 
documents in Chinese. I am told that Mac OS X has the same. Linux does 
not. Many of the apps on Linux are no where near as slick as they are on 
Windows, however, the Linux source is available, and if a problem exists 
we can fix it and the design is fundamentally fairly clean.

For me, it's horses for courses ... all three are better than Primos.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com