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I know I shouldn't bother, but....

...I'll try to answer your assertions here.

"Linux has no applications, no standards, dependencies that cause nightmares in the OS."

LSB is a standard most distributions adhere to now, and Linux has been POSIX-compliant for some time. KDE applications tend to look and feel like one another, as do Gnome applications. And as for the number of apps available, take a gander at www.rpmfind.net. You'll find thousands. Tens of thousands. Maybe hundreds of thousands. And any modern distribution makes the easiest of these applications available for the end user. Tried OpenOffice.org recently? In my estimation, it's easier than Microsoft Office.

"I have used Redhat and found it to be more unstable than any Windows, when you have problems in Linux such as a sound module that stops working, a messenger with segmenation fault errors."

First off, much like with Windows, you need to make sure that the sound card driver you're attempting to load is, in fact, the correct one. Improper drivers will almost certainly destabilize a system. However, I don't believe that to be the root cause. I'll get to the real root cause of your instability in a moment.

As for blaming Red Hat for your unstable messenger app, that's like blaming Microsoft because AOL Instant Messenger is crashing on you. Get a clue, folks: Linux is an OS, not a messenger, web browser, or office suite.

"Another fact, with Redhat 9 'full install' there were 288 megs of updates from the up2date Redhat agent. This is worse than any Windows patching I can recall. There were more security related patches, this is a mess."

Oy... Where to start... First off, I think we've just found the root cause of your instability problems above. You did a full install of Red Hat without knowing what you were doing? You have only yourself to blame, buddy. Those 288 megs of patches you had to do? Maybe 30 or 40 of them should have applied to you, and maybe less if you weren't actually using all the apps and features those patches were for.

Secondly, for Linux newbies I always recommend that people use the "recommended" installation option. You'll get the best and most streamlined applications for the distro you're using, and you can always uninstall or install new stuff later.

If you were installing a Windows server, would you install DNS, DHCP, a web server, an FTP server, your active directory schema master and domain master, an NNTP server, a file and print sharing server, games, media players, browser plug-ins, and anything else you could think of on it? No, didn't think so. But that's pretty much what you did to your "unstable" Red Hat box.

Posted by: Damon K   Posted on: 10/29/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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