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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4932 comp.os.linux.misc:33631 comp.os.os2.advocacy:74862 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!netnews.upenn.edu!dsinc!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ee.und.ac.za!psgrain!library.ucla.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!jjs From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: 20 Jan 1995 01:33:20 GMT Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside Lines: 46 Message-ID: <3fn3t0$grm@galaxy.ucr.edu> References: <oj7gpDm00iWPQ7hm0d@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dostoevsky.ucr.edu In article <oj7gpDm00iWPQ7hm0d@andrew.cmu.edu>, Ian S Nelson <bonovox+@CMU.EDU> wrote: >The users are just like amiga fans, they have a lot of support for it. >That is good and all, Linux is not that bad being free. It runs on a >lot of configurations. There are better things out there though, IMO >and the opinion of many more people. BSD, Solaris, AIX, SCO, UnixWare, >NextStep, and several others all run on x86 too... Man, you are sounding very naive just now - just parroting the advertising slogans of the commercial vendors - I've seen some of these commercial products, and I am not impressed. We have many X86 machines here, and have run linux, Solaris, NT, NeXT, and netBSD... NeXT: Nice propritary (not X) WYSIWIG interface, but linux runs about 3 times faster - network speed is a real problem here - Solaris on X86: haha - you must be kidding - I haven't seen it come close to linux - slow and buggy, it doesn't recognize the hardware we have, it can't run X with the video card we have, and the networking has never been right... As for the others, I haven't personally used unixware, SCO or AIX but those who use them tell me that they wish they were running linux... >Installing it is an involved procedure, it's not something you just sit >down and do in 45minutes one day. Au Contraire, I do sit down and do it in 45 minutes - that is almost exactly how long it takes for a full nfs slackware installation on a P-90 with full on X, networking and development tools - and it works correctly right off the bat... >If your hardware isn't very mainstream it can be tough to install linux. linux probably runs on more diverse hardware than any other intel UNIX... e.g. Solaris and NeXt simply could not support the hardware that linux has been running on - though great efforts were expended trying... Don't know what to tell ya, guy... jjs -- jjs@wintermute.ucr.edu / You can't figure out how to A linux machine! because a 486 / ACCELERATE your Windoze NT box? is a terrible thing to waste! / -9.8 m/s^2 works quite well!!!