<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 07/11/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jason Clifford</b> <<a href="mailto:jason@ukfsn.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jason@ukfsn.org
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On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 07:55 +0000, Peter Childs wrote:<br>> 6. does not required repeated rebooting to install the slightest of<br>> updates or due to an application failure, The old firefox dies and<br>> takes the entire os with it......
<br><br>Tell that to people who experience an application failure which takes<br>out the X server and therefore all IO so that they are unable to do<br>anything except reboot if they don't have sshd or similar running and
<br>another computer on the LAN through which to connect and kill X.<br><br>Then tell them they cannot play the games and other non-Office<br>applications that were the real reason they bought the PC.<br><br>Windows and Linux are just the OS. People don't really use the OS. They
<br>use applications and that's what they care about. With most Linux<br>distros the issue is a little confused because they include so many<br>applications but the fact remains that people using Windows are not<br>really using Windows - they are using the set of applications they have
<br>installed on top of it. That's what they really care about.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>which is what i said at the start of this thread.<br><br>Why then to install practically any app do i have to reboot windows at least once (usually twice) but to install it under Linux it just works....
<br><br>Really this is not an os problem but a application vendor problem a thing windows has never excelled at (shared libraries etc). (When compared to RPM or DEB) <br><br>It depends on weather you consider the framework for installing apps (ie dpkg/rpm) to be part of the os or not?
<br><br>I will not saying linux is perfect its not, its just a lot better than windows. However Windows has come a long way since the rewrite with NT/XP <br><br>Peter.<br>