Solaris 10 Success Story. 3668
Yes, an OS is just a tool.. but there are tools and then there are tools.
I understand your comment about religion and I certainly agree: there are zealots for just about every OS - some have more than others, of course. I don't like zealots, whether they are pushing Jesus, Linux, or the latest fad diet.
I do have a bias, not toward a specific OS, but I admit to liking Unixish style much better than anything else. I also have a political bias toward Open Source and against software patents and traditional
snip ravings of Mike Cox Mike, Solaris 10 might be a success, but on the Sparc platform, not x86. I myself...
Nonsense. It's a possible information leak in all hyperthreading cpus, on any operating system, windos included. Not that the leak provides any usable info at all. He seems to be an...
But for the most part, computers are just tools to accomplish some other task. Much of what I do could be done on any OS, so I find it hard to get really incensed about any of it. I dislike Microsoft much more for their corporate behaviour than for their OS features (though there's plenty there to dislike!). There are still computer hobbyists who are using their systems more or less as most of us did way back in the 70's when this all started, but those folks are a very small minority today.. and the real hobbyists are probably playing with experimental OSes much
-- Tony Lawrence