Subject: Re: NT vs Linux (was: Re: truth or dare) From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 05:06:34 GMT
In article <MUTS.93Jul7072935@muts.hacktic.nl> muts@muts.hacktic.nl (Peter Mutsaers) writes:
>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.
I would just hope that someone is remembering that the bulk of shrink
wrap applications for SVR3 and SVR4 are SVR3 COFF binaries. The largest
installed base of x86 UNIX systems SVR3 and uses COFF (SVR4 also supports
COFF as well as ELF).
--Rick Kelly rmk%rmkhome@merk.com merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP