[NTLUG:Discuss] Microsoft stock slips after report, Dell comments

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On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 14:14:35 -0600 Steve Baker <sjbaker1 at airmail.net>
writes:
	<snip>
> 
> Their most serious error (IMHO) is in treating it as one gigantic
> chunk of monolithic code - with all the applications tightly
> integrated into the kernel.
> 
> Linux's strength is that the kernel is completely separate from the
> windowing system which is completely independent from the 
> applications
> and so on.  It's a lot easier to debug ten independent million line
> programs than one massive ten million line program.
> 
> Still, that figure of 65,000 'known bugs' makes you wonder how many
> 'unknown bugs' there are....and it's a great number to tell your
> boss the next time he suggests using Windoze where Linux would be
> more appropriate.
> 
>    :-)
> 
> -- 
> Steve Baker                  http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
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	Steve, thanks.  Yes, when I read it, it did sound pretty high, but then,
we've all used Windows, however briefly, haven't we?  I don't daily read
SlashDot, but I will go over there and take a look at the posts on this.

	Not exactly on your point, but I'm close:

	I took about 3 stabs at writing that last night.  After posting, I
realized I'd left out the most important thing:  You focussed on it
today, and thanks for bringing us back to solid ground.  The fact that
you have open source, free (speech) software, with an army of writers
around the globe, writing improvements and bug fixes, posting them on the
Net and putting them to work, is something that Microshaft and other
OS'es cannot equal, in my opinion.  

	After 8 or 9 months, I still consider myself doggone new to Linux; my
prior attempts at kernel compiling have, regrettably, not been
successful.  Nevertheless, the idea of being able to leave out of the
kernel, for example, modules/ drivers/ whatever for hardware which I
don't have, will never use, etc. seems, to me, to be a very efficient way
to create an OS.  The idea of getting a bug fix and installing it in a
matter of days, rather than having to wait for Service pack 90/11, seems
even smarter.

	In short, if people work at it, because they love it (writing the code;
the OS; whatever), my experience teaches me that they generally do a
whale of a better job.  Thanks again.
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