Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 May 1999 15:02:37 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd) |
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Larry McVoy writes: > You guys should listen to Ken. He is a wise man. Linux is a great > little OS and is probably the world's greatest software development > environment. On the other hand, there are a bunch of places where > it leaves a lot to be desired. Using an off the shelf Linux for a > firewall vs. using an off the shelf Solaris as a firewall is an > interesting comparison. Using Linux when you really need 64 bits to > work is also an interesting problem. I've been through 3 startups > which are all Linux based and there was many a time that I was ready > to call Sun (I never did, but it was, and continues to be, quite > painful).
Agreed, there are gaps. But Solaris isn't without its problems either.
> That doesn't say anything negative about Linux, by the way. It just > says we still have work to do. Which is true.
What seemed negative to me was how he said NT was bad and Linux was worse. That he considers Linux *worse* than NT was rather surprising.
Regards,
Richard....
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