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To: Punko who wrote (8661)	10/13/1998 7:30:00 PM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

I'm not so sure about the "usability" problems with Linux, unless you mean that you have to know what 'grep' means. One of my colleagues installed Linux on a PC he had over 4 years ago, and then added a CD/ROM player and rebooted the machine, and Linux recognized the device and properly installed the driver (while asking if this was indeed the right device) during boot up. That's about what you'd get from NT now, and Linux has reportedly gotten even better. Also, I'm no fan of X Windows, but it's as good as the cruddy MSFT window system. It's like the IBM heydeys -- it isn't that MSFT is usable, it's just that everyone is used to their junk and so they mistake familiar for "the way stuff ought to be". Five years ago someone told me that Linux might be the wave of the future, and I said that wouldn't happen, because it would require that MSFT would close down their O/S instead of opening it up. Well at least I was half right -- I foolishly thought that OLE and friends were slightly incompetent attempts to open up the O/S so that third party apps would live on an equal footing with "native MSFT" software. What a chump! Now I think that if they continue with their current bunker mentality they will manage to make Linux truly viable, in part because they'll piss off enough people like me that we'll write software for Linux.

To: Punko who wrote (8661)	10/14/1998 2:05:00 PM
From: Brian Moore	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

< Compare that to what Sandia was able to do with Linux and a few strung-together PII's > The Nasdaq web site is more than a few strung-together servers. I don't think it cost them tens of millions of dollars because they decided to use 20 Intel/Windows NT servers. Are you saying that if only those stupid people at Nasdaq had been smart enough to use Linux and some strung-together PII's they could have brought the project in for 1/20th the cost? I think the cost was associated with building the system, not the choice of 20 licences for NT.