My Professor Says Linux Sucks and Is Not Real Unix. 2868

Luna Lane

well, Solaris does have some open source tools available.

well, thats his opinion. mind you, the only fragmentation is the 30,000+ development projects, and even then, thats not very fragmented. linux (especially the kernel project) is very united when it comes to proper support for devices. as for user unfriendlyness, are e talking unfriendly users or the OS not being "point and click" playable?

oh really? Linux Torvalds still has the final say on how the linux kernel works. even IBM can't change that. Also, if linux is such a poor hack, then why are almost all of the original tools for UNIX supported and-or ported to linux? if he's so hot about Unix, perhaps he should try the other "poor linux, only more streamlined)

and he expects us to use an OS that has enough security holes to drive the entire US military forces through? no thanks. as for MAC, well, since they allied themselves with Intel, look for OSX to die on the vine in the next 3-5 years as they port everything over to the intel-based arch.

linux will still be around (it has support for Intel, AMD, DEC-Alpha, ppc, 68k and others). how many OS'es do you know that can support almost every chipset out there? so far, I can think of 3 (and windows isn't one of them)

well, its solid now on the ppc. porting to Intel is going to mean growing pains and lots of debugging for years.

They do? I thought is was more like 68% of the DESKTOP market. UNIX-Linux and others still have a commanding control of the server market (where windows has less than 20% share)

if you want real UNIX, pay AT&T their license fees for an outdated OS that can't meet the needs of modern hardware, or pay $49.00 for a good copy of BSD or choose just about any flavor of linux you want. if you want windows, well, its $295 for the XP home, $495 for XP Pro of $800 for server 2003 with 5 user license (and even then, you don't own it, you are only leasing it from M$).

I am a linux user and administrator. I find it far easier to use than windows (and far less costly given I use both a speech synth and braille display unit). for my specialized needs, I would have to pay upwards of $1,500 in purchase costs and license fees to have accessibility in windows. for the cost of $79.00, I got all of that in Suse linux 9.2 (Novell branch) and I get free tech support from Novell. Can't say that with windows can you?

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