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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Coherent 4.0 / Linux wrt BYTE Mag.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.174158.23431@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 17:41:58 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.052153.19175@athena.mit.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul23.052153.19175@athena.mit.edu>, jgifford@attmail.com writes:
- | There is a VERY nice write-up on Coherent 4.0 in the August issue of BYTE, page
- | 37. The author says a lot of nice things about it, but it seems that linux
- | is better, cause we now have X, and coherent doesn't.
-
- Keep in mind that linux and Coherent have gone very different ways.
- Coherent provides a small number of features, well documented and
- robust. linux provides a large number of features (X, VM, etc) but there
- are multiple solutions to the same problem, tons of undocumented things,
- and not everything is of uniform quality.
-
- I think that linux has a great deal of potentioal, but it's not ready
- for end users (and may never be). So your definition of "better" is one
- thing and someone who wants to use the o/s for regular work may have
- another. The people who take the time to package linux parts from many
- places are doing a great service, perhaps as great as the people writing
- code, because they are drawing people into the linux community who would
- not otherwsie make the effort to try it. Some because they haven't the
- technical smarts or net access, some (including me) because they only
- view linux as another variant to which applications should be ported.
-
- At the moment Coherent and linux are useful to different user sets,
- and I don't think either is "better" in an overall sense.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- It never ceases to amaze me that otherwise rational people, able to
- understand calculus, compound interest, and the income tax form, can
- continue to believe that poker is a game of chance.
-