Which is better 648

On Sunday 19 March 2006 09:28, Stanislaw Flatto stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:

Pedant point... NT is not a UNIX, and never has been. ;-) The original

The NT kernel was written by Dave Cutler, who had also written the DEC VMS kernel. In fact, the NT kernel actually has some original VMS code in it. DEC caught Cutler doing that redhandedly after he had transfered to Microsoft, and that is why Microsoft settled by agreeing to support DEC's Alpha in Windows NT.

The actual NT kernel however is only a kind of supervisor - a microkernel, if you will - running underneath a Win32 kernel - very similar to how the Darwin kernelspace is built up, but without the

However, it's the Win32 personality that dominates what Windows NT is, and this turns it into just the same old junk as before, but with a genuine 32-bit kernel instead of something DOS-based and with ACL's - which can conveniently be bypbutted by installing Windows in avfatparbreastion.

Allegedly, Microsoft is working on a totally new operating system - codenamedSingularity- which they say is not intended for commercial publication. However, recently I read that they already have plans to a successor for the not-yet-released Vista, and that they call this one "DarkStar" - sounds very familiar to "Singularity", right? - and that this will be a total rewrite of the Windows platform.

Still, I don't trust Microsoft to ever deliver something original and good - they've "borrowed" just about everything elsewhere already - and I doubt that it will ever be a UNIX architecture.

And to finally come back to the topic - thank God, as I really don't want to be debating Windows in this newsgroup - GNU-Linux is a Internet.

Networking in Windows was bolted-on as an afterthought. UNIX systems have always been multiuser systems and originated on larger hardware architectures.

So *of* *course,* GNU-Linux is the best networking system of the two platforms the OP mentioned, and always will be. It's also the best for a server. And for a workstation. And well... for everything else,

-- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (Registered GNU-Linux user #223157)