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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: Why NT is better than KDE/UNIX
From:       Emyr Tomos <emyr () emerose ! demon ! co ! uk>
Date:       1998-08-19 8:54:15
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This probably isn't strictly and unqualifiably true - a lot of tasks can be done
by scripting on NT (Perl for NT e.g runs nicely on my office machine) and NT
actually exposes quite a lot of stuff to the command line.
I've never had to do user admin on NT (and I'm quite glad because I would have
to learn!) but the NT way of doing things seems to be to have command line
options available if you can find them. This is certainly true of the
environment, where you can use a GUI or a script. This means for instance that
if you want to track how a server runs under different environments you can
write a script to set the environment, hup the server and run a test then change
the environment etc.
However Linux is still infinitely more stable (and easier to trace down problems
because you have access to the kernel) and more efficient in terms of hardware
use (better memory management and the ability to build a kernel to suit).
It's more the case that if GUI front ends were available for Linux admin NT
would have nothing left to claim over Linux, even though I think the advantage
has been overstated by Micropore. (Who do you want looking after one of the most
critical points of failure in _your_ organisation?)

Sorry - less than two cents worth in a quarters worth of words. That's me all
over.

Em

R. Kneidinger wrote:

> I also use both NT and Linux. I personally like *NIX better. A major
> problem (or drawback) in the administration of NT is, that you have the
> lack of getting big, tedious ever-repeating stuff done by using scripts.
> Let's say, you have a computer-class (in school, college......) and every
> two months you have to create 100 new users and have to delete 100 old ones.
> You have the names in a list (from signing up for the course). How would
> you do that in NT ? And thats just _one_ example........
> I guess, NT is ok, if you don't have many users. People are used to it,
> and in an office it sure is the better choice for the desktop (from the
> point of view, that almost everybody knows how to deal with it). I hope
> this is changing soon (with KOffice, although there is
> already good Office software today)..............
> >From the stability and reliability viewpoint *NIX is sure beating NT.
>
> Just my 2 cents..
>
> Rudi
>
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