Re: [AL] Time to move on (was vesa 3.0 video card suggestions?)

[Chris M. <ch...@pe...>]

At 18:53 30/01/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
> >If you still REALLY REALLY insist on using DOS, at least get all of
> >the GNU fileutils such as ls and rm, and then also get a binary of
> >bash or ash or ksh running on it, then it is marginally useable.
>
>Um, I hate to burst your bubble, but DOS does have commands to list the
>contents of a directory and delete a file.  They're also named something
>reasonable, like dir and del, rather than cryptic initials like ls and rm.
>Linux might be marginally useful if the DOS commands and shell were ported
>to it...

<holding self back> Must...resist...desire...to...flame.... </holding>

Here's a list of things that linux can do, which not even WINDOWS can do 
(let alone dos...there are MANY other things linux can do which dos can't).

Optimised kernel for your CPU
Run on SPARC, MIPS, and other CPU's
Switch of the cpu id
support super computing clusters (MOSIX)
change the cpu microcode from userspace via filesystem
load modules into the kernel
Loopback block device
software RAID 0/1/4/5
Ram disks
Initial ram disks on boot up
advanced *stateful* firewalling
Unix domain sockets (they don't even know what they are, let alone what 
they're missing)
IP multicasting
Policy routing
OSPF routing
BGP4 routing
RIP routing
RIP2 routing
Equal cost multi path load balancing
TOS as routing key
transparent port redirection
GRE tunnels
TCP syncookies (prevent DoS)
Appletalk support
Network Bridging
Advanced QoS (I know XP has *rudimentary* QoS but does it have...)
         Class Based Queue
         Clark-Shenker-Zhang Queue
         n-band priority queue
         Random Early Detection
         Stochastic Fairness Queueing
         True Link Equalizer queuing
         Token Bucket Filter
         Resource Reservation Protocol
         ingress traffic policing
         and more...
AX25 and X25 support
nvram userspace support (change your cmos settings from userspace)
Quota support
reiserfs, xfs, jfs, ANY journalling filesystem support
amiga file system support
Apple mac, QNX, UFS etc etc filesystem support
NFS
NFS root mounts
file FIFO's

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List of things that windows has that linux is missing:
User friendliness

Linux is for people who want to go back to the days when you actually had 
CONTROL over your system. Sure, you have to accept a sacrifice of user 
friendliness, but I would sacrifice that any day of the week for the fact 
that my computer is totally customized for myself and my applications. 
Don't get mandrake or redhat or one of those windows wanna-be's. You're a 
programmer! You know how to CODE. You're used to obscure and weird syntax 
and config files. Learn a bit about linux by getting a real distribution 
like debian, sorcerer, or slackware. Get yourself a real operating system 
and you too will feel the power...

Chris (just realized that he's one of those 'raving lunatic linux zealots' 
who he used to make fun of back when he was running windows)

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