Kernel Comparison: Linux (2.6.20) versus Windows (Vista)
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prateek_san
Phenom II X4 920 Owner
fck i thought the same to....... 
man windows is really going to go down by few yrs.............
man windows is really going to go down by few yrs.............azaad_shri75
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windows generally beg or borrow or steal from open source or mac.
will get ur brains right!and u admitted urself a fanboy!OK then am a fan of GNU/Linux and FOSS.azaad_shri75
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shantanu_webmaster said:
does it look so harsh :roll:
praka123
left this forum longback
any thoughts on BSD UNIX*
Linux kernel sure is a gr8 miracle as all of it comes from voluntary work although there are BIG contributions from Companies like RedHat,IBM etc.got lotta arch support!
ppl needs to consider comparing with FreeBSD kernel afaik the most hardened and stable one powering many prominent web sites!but who cares Linux kernel steals the show.apple uses(looted) FreeBSD as core for MacOS X as these BSD guys licenced the kernel with BSD licence which allows copying without retaining original source work unlike Linux's GPL.
Linux kernel sure is a gr8 miracle as all of it comes from voluntary work although there are BIG contributions from Companies like RedHat,IBM etc.got lotta arch support!
ppl needs to consider comparing with FreeBSD kernel afaik the most hardened and stable one powering many prominent web sites!but who cares Linux kernel steals the show
.apple uses(looted) FreeBSD as core for MacOS X as these BSD guys licenced the kernel with BSD licence which allows copying without retaining original source work unlike Linux's GPL.
gxsaurav
You gave been GXified
Despite of having so much so called hardware support, Linux kernal is still not mature or stable enough for a hardware. Just one of many reasons that hardware vendors are shy to make drivers for linux. One driver does not fits all Distros. Can't they just keep the driver part unified among all dstribution.
What the point of supporting every hardware out there 60% insted of supporting a standerd which works unified among all Linux distro. Linix is no where close to Vista's kernal when it comes to ease of use. The openness of Linux kernal is the reason it has so many distributions with no interopratibility leading to confusion & unstability. Now I hope you won't say Linux doesn't crash.
What the point of supporting every hardware out there 60% insted of supporting a standerd which works unified among all Linux distro. Linix is no where close to Vista's kernal when it comes to ease of use. The openness of Linux kernal is the reason it has so many distributions with no interopratibility leading to confusion & unstability. Now I hope you won't say Linux doesn't crash.
shantanu
Technomancer
gx_saurav said:
absolutely right.. whenever i wanted to try a linux distro... something goes bad.. firstly there was no support for SATA, then when they gave support for it, then other compatiblity problems... and all..
well Linux is OSS.. this is the thing which makes a difference.. and comparing can never be a solution...
just a simple thing i cant understand, when anyone speaks about Windows then its ok, but when it is on linux then why i see flames ...
mediator
Technomancer
Can u elaborate a little more on above quoted statements. I thought all the Linux distros were based on a kernel maintained by Linux torvalds!
What has kernel to do with ease of use?
All the way in software engineering books I read kernel level working is "transparent" to Mr.average Joe!How does it leads to unstabilty?
Well, Its been 3+ years I guess. Fc3, Fc4, Fc5....all without any updates.....and I have yet to experience any crash......the reason I like Linux. Some applications do crash sometimes, but its not like that it will take the whole OS with it and u r rendered helpess completely endangering the life of ur hdd by pushing the reset button! Even if an app gets hanged, u can easily close it without doing a "kill" simply by closing it where it ask u to "force quit". Even if the app gets hanged, then also u can continue with ur oracle server, 10 webpages, gimp, xmms etc! I may be lucky u can say, but I dont think its just a coincidence that fc3,4,5 all went fine.....or is it?
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