From: muts@muts.hacktic.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Subject: Re: NT vs Linux (was: Re: truth or dare) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1993 06:29:35 GMT
On Tue, 6 Jul 1993 01:02:06 GMT, rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) said:
>seen. Give Linux another year and it'll probably kick any other Unix's
RK> ^^^^^^
>butt, on any other single-CPU platform.
RK> I take it that you haven't seen any commercial Unix systems
RK> newer than 1985 or so. I like Linux, but it is only a subset of
RK> what is shipped with UNIX today on commercial systems. SCO ODT
RK> 3.0, Solaris 2.1 for x86, and Univel Unixware all come with X11
RK> that supports literally every card and monitor on the
Some support more HW, but some less. Linux isn't that bad, it supports
quite a lot.
If it goes for other features: I work daily with several unix versions
(Irix5, Solaris, HPUX) and there are no things missing in Linux.
Networking is quite stable now, and complete. What isn't there (well,
it is now in beta) but what I do not miss for my personal system is
filesystem quota. Name me another thing common to all modern unices
and missing on Linux.
RK> market. (Except nobody supports Diamond cards) The networking
RK> software is solid as a rock. And there are real commercial
RK> applications that are used by businesses such as 123, Word
RK> Perfect, etc.
RK> Try to find a secretary who uses emacs and TeX for word
RK> processing.
RK> Try to find a beancounter who is willing to use SC for
RK> spreadsheets.
That is one of the things you have to wait another year for: people
are working on running SVR4 binaries on Linux, then all these
commercial applications run on linux too.
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