"Canuck57" <dave-no_spam@unixhome.net> wrote in message
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> "Billy Smith" <chungkingchungking******.com> wrote in message
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>> "Dave" <nospam@biteme.com> wrote in message
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>>> Billy Smith wrote:
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>>> How do you explain this?
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Top500_OS.png
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>> What it says to me is that your corporate and university level people
>> working with supercomputers are going to Linux versus Unix or in the
>> case of Microsoft they aren't going to use it. Thats doesn't mean that
>> Microsoft makes a bad product for the general consumer market. Linux does
>> have its use and one of its uses is that it tends to be rather fast for
>> an operating system. However, if you consider speed anything you should
>> use Linux. Yet when you use a wide variety of PC appplications, you will
>> find that they aren't usable in Linux format. You can partition your
>> drive to use both Microsoft based stuff and Linux or you can stick with
>> what you know.
>> For most people, they are not going to use Linux because A: There is no
>> need for using it and B: They don't have the capability to babysit Linux
>> based systems. The average computer science grad or expert in the
>> computer field very well might get some usage out of it. For most people,
>> they are content in using Microsoft Office or whatever works for plug and
>> play applications.
>>
>> Theyr'e not going to waste their time formatting their hard drive to run
>> a program and system that while being faster doesn't have the applicable
>> uses that a Microsoft system has. The Microsoft systems have that
>> advantage because you can put in any XP or Vista or 98 based software of
>> which I have at least one in each operating system. You can put in any
>> program that is made for that system and use it. That cannot be said for
>> converting your system to Linux no matter how much faster it may be. Its
>> not really worth the time for most people
>>
>> If you want to put Linux and make it customizable to your system that
>> works for those applications then go for it.. For the general computer
>> user that exists in the general public, then most people go for
>> Microsoft. They're not going to use Linux and I would venture than
>> Microsoft is much more recognizable than what Linux has been or probably
>> will ever be.
>>
>> Linux is still at the infancy state of the computer realm. Its not going
>> to catch on all that much for the hundreds of millions of computer users.
>>
>> Thats why Mac will never be a viable competitor to Microsoft. They're
>> still stuck in the proprietary and infant stage. Just like the Iphone. I
>> would have actually been interested in getting an Iphone but when I have
>> to use ATT for service, they can forget it. I used to have Cingular and
>> it was a joke for phone service but also their customer service section
>> was incompetent at best. I can actually pay my bill through Verizon and
>> know what I actually owe. Nice concept isnt it.
>>
>> Macs will never become more than fancy overpriced boxes for graphics
>> users, game players, etc. You never see that many Macs ever used for
>> servers, internet commerce, etc. Thats why you can go to the Apple store
>> here in Louisville and find out that a Mac will cost you 1500 to 2000
>> dollars when a basic Vista/XP computer will net you half those amounts.
>> When Apple learns to market their computers and systems correctly and
>> produce something worth really having, then they will take off. Until
>> then, they don't have a prayer competition wise.
>
> If you mean is Linux finished growing up and fully mature? Heck no, it
> has only begun. I suspect it will be evolving well past my lifetime.
>
> Linux is vastly superior to Vista in most ways, you bet. I place it just
> on the heals of XP right now but ahead of Vista. I will grant, XP is
> quite mature, but stagnant. Where as Linux is still, and will always
> perpetually evolve.
>
> The Linux maturity is going to be evolutionary and not the dump everything
> change now you see with Microsoft products. Where as Microsoft has a
> grand-batch mentality. The later can't get continuous improvement, can't
> evolve. Take Vista, is now in maintenance mode. Its active development
> has ceased! Understand that. They all moved on to Win 7 for the next
> disruption.
>
> Mind you, Vista is a bad batch of soup, the best place is the garborator.
>


You people don't give up easily, do you. This argument has been raging for
years, but only at user level mainly because users don't understand the
whole picture.

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