Author: Peter Berger
Date: 15:10:19 08/11/04
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On August 11, 2004 at 10:16:10, Anthony Cozzie wrote: And I was so determined to not post more OT :). >Linux over windows: > >1. Great selection of good window managers. (things like collapse to title bar, >multiple desktops, right-click start menu, dock, etc). A first issue where I wonder how this is supposed to be an advantage over XP. >2. Journalling filesystems. What's wrong with NTFS ? - never had problems with it. Actually this was *the* major turn-off for me that made me reinstall Windows on the one system that had Linux for a longer period of time at my basement. I think it had something called Reiser FS or maybe JFS. At some point it crashed - it entered the kernel debugger ( or sth equivalent), and I had to run a manual fsck on the root filesystem to get it booted again. At that time this was sth I was pretty used to at work with ill Unix systems, so it was not really hard, but once I had entered this fsck -f whatsoever dfgsdfg I came to the conclusion that this was not what I needed. >4. Reasonable AMD64 support. Yes, that's the only issue that makes Linux look very attractive to me currently, although it is certainly not without problems in Linux either. >5. Various servers (mail, ftp, ssh). Yes. Linux is superior as a server, for people who need that. > >6. Elegant package based distros (upgrade your entire machine with one command. >It works as well or better than windows update, but it does your applications >too) With one mouseclick everything is updated :) ? > >7. Free. Yes, that's nice - in case time doesn't make up for it. Peter
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