[H-GEN] Re: Unix vs NT (religious war :-)

[Alistair Robson]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Alistair Robson <s341126 at student.uq.edu.au>)


To all concerned,

Whilst I do believe that Unix is much better than NT I think the unix
community sould take head of what Doug is saying.  There is a point in all
of this.  Yes Linux is a bother to understand for newbies to *nicies but
,as I have done, if people go through and take the time to read,
comprehend and act then the problems will usually be fixed.  Of course I
guess you can imagine a small business that does not have a permanent
computer technician ( or whatever the job description is ).  I don't think
that they would want to much around with something that takes a while to
fix. Time is money in business.  From that point of view I can see how NT
has been very successful in that market.  But I have also seen linux
become more user friendly as well and I believe this is a positive sign.
I know some people have labelled Red Hat 6.0 ( and clones ) as the NT of
linux ... perhaps that is why it is doing so well.  Maybe the linux
community needs a brand that looks and feels like NT, but has unix under
the hood. This would certainly make it very popular in the wider
non-expert computer community.  Certainly I do hope that this occurs
because frankly I think that :	
		a)	The world deserves a "good" operating system
		b)	Linux kicks Windows Ass
		c)	Microsoft needs a really good kicking !

Anyway that's my two cents !

Alistair


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