Re: [ros-kernel] Forward: "ReactOS is too limited"

[Koert v. d. V. <ko...@ic...>]

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>
> After looking through reams of unhelpful (and sometimes contradictory)
Linux
> FAQs and other DOCs, I ventured onto some Linux forums where I was told to
> "RTFM" (by people with 5 inch thick glasses, a permanent hunch and acne
that
> would make a leopard feel jealous, I have no doubt).
>
> The Linux command line is unhelpful, unfriendly and unforgiving. Maybe it
> was useful in the past (to save disk space, processor power, memory, etc.)
> to use an OS with a minimal amount of messages, but times have changed. We
> live in an age where the minimum spec processor you can buy (at least in
the
> UK) is 1 GHz and systems come with 512MB RAM standard.
>
> Linux may be good as a web server. Apache is an excellent program, but
> people will be able to run the win32 version on ReactOS soon so what
> possible use will Linux have then? (except maybe as a firewall - wow!).
>

You are exagerating here. For management tasks I prefer a commandline over a
GUI. A commandline interface is usually easier to design, and is therefore
often more informative. I really dislike using the mouse, and I feel I am
forced to use it in a GUI.
Linux is a perfect server-machine, though it has several disadvantages
running it as a desktop OS. At home all my files are stored on my Debian
server, which is also webserver, mail-server, filewall, router, etc... To
work i use a windows machine. More and more often i find myself working on
the server via Putty, because of it's wonderfull commandline interface...

What use does a webserver have, wasting it's precious processorcycles on
maintaining a desktopwindow? I guess the only enviroment that justifies a
GUI (or more specifict to win32, the GDI) is a desktop machine.