Unix vs. VAX/VMS and Windows vs. Unix/Linux/BSD -- seems like we'veseen this before

From: allisonp_at_world.std.com <(allisonp_at_world.std.com)>
Date: Mon May 8 08:16:40 2000

> If Caldera 2.3 isn't faster than W95 it's got to be misconfigured.
> Boy, it's a lot faster than W98 on the same hardware at work and
> much more reliable.

Used the standard images and ran it on 486dx66 with 20m ram. No faster
than W95 (tuned) and about the same as WinNT4.0/workstation. The Xserver
is the limiter as it's served not native graphics on the 486 it's
noticeable. It seemed robust enough but faster... not really.

I also don't care that the kernel fit on a 1.44mb disk (useful for LRP
maybe) as the useful config has to have a lot more around it for a user
workstation. When you reach that point it's big, like needing a 1gb disk
big.

> the update from 2.3 wasn't on the website at a discount yet) looks
> pretty quick... I do think Mandrake 7.0 seems to have just about every
> option and tool out for Linux on one CD.

Therein lies the probelm with linux:

 Slackware, mandrake, redhat, cladara and howmany more all different?

Reminds me of CPM2.2, all teh same cpm but modem programs were not always
portable and media was often different. Same but, not really.

Allison
Received on Mon May 08 2000 - 08:16:40 BST

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