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Subject:    Re: Why NT is better than KDE/UNIX
From:       Jason H <dkfalcon () pmtinet ! com>
Date:       1998-08-19 5:26:57
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Steven T. Hatton wrote:

> !WARNING! THIS MESSAGE IS FLAME BATE.  YES THIS IS AN OPEN TROLL!!!!

Finally a debate starter thats not a KDE-Gnome infight...

> I work with both NT and Unix on a daily basis and I find that NT is, in
> general, easier to administer.  People may say this is because I am not
> as smart as the true Unix administrator.  Ok perhaps this is the case.

It may be easy to administer, but dealing with the blue screen of death and
the interruptions this causes can be more of a headache in the long run
than setting up a stable *NIX server with somewhat more cryptic commands. I
had my redhat 5.0 workstation up and running in 2 hours, with no prior *NIX
experience, and can troubleshoot most problems without much help. I grew up
in the DOS world and am by no means a Linux "guru".

> M$ has put a lot of thought and effort into making NT easy to
> administer.  There are many powerful, well integrated, intuitive to use
> administration tools that come with NT.

If only they took so much care in the structure and design of the Windows
NT OS itself... Things like sloppy file system organization and crude error
handling (BSOD) come to mind immediately, not to mention countless other
things MS could have done better in the first place when coding the
original OS core.

>  I believe that the open source
> and freeware community should work toward creating a Unix administration
> suite that is as easy to use and as well integrated as NT is.

This is a great idea. I would love to contribute to such an effort once my
self-learning of C/C++ becomes more refined and I can grasp larger
programming concepts (I am working diligently on this but still have a ways
to go). Is anyone working on such a project?

> This post is intended as a conversation starter.  It is also intended as
> a wake-up call for those who think that M$ is not creating a product
> that represents a formidable challenge to the Unix market share.  I
> favor the open-source/freeware model of software development.  It will
> eventually prevail, but it has a long way to go before it will be aseasy
> to use as NT.

> When people make decisions about which operating
> system to use as a basis for their business, they care more about how
> easy it is to implement and maintain than how efficient, cheap, or
> versatile it is.  It seems to me that the KDE is the place to focus an
> integrated UNIX administration suite effort.

I agree totally. IMHO KDE will help *NIX/Linux hold its ground in the
business sector, if not expand it with a few more easier to use tools, as
well as push linux into the mainstream computing world (which is already
happening at ever increasing rates). I find it amazing to see such a fine,
modern, and stable environment develop as quickly as KDE has. Hi-5's to the
developers-great work! I no longer have to run any version of windows on my
machine. KDE does almost everything I need from day to day here, and that
will be even more true once KOffice reaches greater stability.

>
>
> BTW, I run the KDE on S.u.S.E. Linux and it is very stable.  Just a few
> minor bugs.
>
> Steve
> --

  I run KDE on RH5.0 here, and with the same results. I only need to reboot
every week or so, but thats mostly due to the unstable electric service
here. Once I get my UPS I will be able to kiss those problems goodbye. Sure
beats the daily or hourly reboots I had to do with win9x.

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