Reasons to stick with Windows Vista and avoid Ubuntu
Submitted by srlinuxx on Tue, 08/21/2007 - 11:51.
As you may recall, outgoing PC Magazine editor Jim Louderback had almost nothing good to say about Vista in his most recent column. Just about everyone I know that has used Vista is going to stick with it and Information Week poses the reasons why that not so strangely, I agree with.
The main reason is Aero Glass, Aero Glass is pretty, windows fade in and out and there’s a glossy transparent look to it, who cares if you need a NASA supercomputer to run it? Gamers already have enough adequate hardware capabilities for it and we’re usually suckers for pretty shiny things that gives us improvements of any kind. Or you could accept Alexander Wolfe’s explanation of “With Aero, Vista has a professional user interface, and it just makes working on your PC a more pleasant experience.” Sure but it’s pretty, that’s reason enough for me.
It seems Vista also has some pretty good admin tools for recovering from unstable system configurations, problem tracking, hardware monitors and so on.
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Linux lovers' view of Vista compared with Linux ?
Vista has 25,000 programmers, and Bill Gates' directives in long hand written letters. The Microsoft management now has a tight grip on direction of Vista development.
Vista started with bios as common grounds. Then it builds CE packets and established the minimum number of threads you can use in Vista. The drivers are componentized(needs more preselection of functionality choices). Now any applications can be assigned a thread to run in virtual mode same time, until tabbed display or on multiple small windows, is needed. Displays still have to be grouped in IE7.0. Webpages can be tabbed for automatically displaying the whole website, one webpage by another, by assigned time periods.
So, where is Linux, today? Novell has SLERT, has oracle 11g and WAS-CE(websphere), and SAP with many Cognos third party SAP applications. Granted these new programs may take a year to have installed base, common in the IT departments of large enterprise systems.
On Linux laptop, Novell has Netware which extends terabyte hdd with X:,Y: and Z: drives on any desktop clients with ethernet connection to netware servers.
Nothing like Ubuntu? Ubuntu is in a different class of Linux operating system. So is Puppy, Austrumi and Luit, the tiny desktops. Many midi Linux distros(PcLos, Mepis, Linspire, etc.) also competes with Ubuntu. Then there is Knoppix with over 5.0 gb of applications, not necessarily all for enterprise applications but offers many flavors in each field of applications.
Footnote:
Vista still uses DOS, BSD network operating system and W96/NT/XP windows operating system, with additions of CE packet conversion to ethernet and dotnet packets to run W95 windows operating system.
Linux has to use Posix packets(realtime time division packets atm) to convert to ethernet packets, and soap packets. Linux kernels has DOS, ethernet network operating system dhcp. And soap packets to run browsers with html links. Once, developers learn packet conversion techniques(not in Mono, but in execution of any applications which sends out the correct packet), realtime is easy, but application run in virtual mode same time; has to display at the right time tabbed, or in multiple windows same time.