On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:54:07 GMT, Michael Daly wrote:

On 21-Dec-2005, Dave Hinz wrote:

As opposed to the *nix* systems, which work out of the box without
constant fiddling.

Wha- ha-ha-ha!!!!

Something funny?

Good joke Dave!

Care to explain?

Having handled systems with various linux and Unix versions (solaris, redhat,
gentoo, debian etc) I can say that they are more stable than windows but
only don't require tweaking if nothing is done to them. If you keep adding/updating
software, you will tweak forever.

Yes, installing or building software does take time. But that's not
tweaking the OS with the virus-of-the-week updates now, is it. The
context given was "I can keep tweaking XP and it's just fine for
security and stability", which is considerably different from "I can
install software on a server".

Installing software can be anything from a piece
of cake to a nightmare to an exercise in futility. I've had shells stop working
mysteriously, software come up with bizarre error messages and stop working
and so on. "nix" systems are better, but they are far from perfect.

Never said they were. I said they're secure and stable out of the box,
in sharp contrast to Microsoft's products which ship in "take me, big
boy" mode.

I only wish "user friendly" wasn't a derogatory term among the linux crowd.

Yawn. I'm sure there's some .advocacy group where people would be happy
to correct you on that.