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On 3/12/2012 11:07 PM, Mark H. David wrote:
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<p>Why are all OS's getting worse?!<br>
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I think it's cause they are trying to woo the general public (I am
assuming).<br>
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This is my second try putting my views out, cause there is too much
to say and not enough time.<br>
But I do have to say at least something in my own selfish interest.<br>
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I've been using Win7 ultimate/64 bit as my desktop O/S for about 3
years I think.<br>
It serves fine for that purpose since my day job was in MS env till
recently.<br>
I do my lisp project in CCL under fedora (latest) using virtualbox.
I run just the virtual console (init 3 or whatever and no gui) and
use cygwin/x to host the emacs from linux. I use mintty+screen for
other stuff. <br>
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This has worked great as a combination to support <br>
1. my day job (MS C# visual studio) work <br>
2. which also included a android/java/eclispe project recently<br>
3. my CL hobby that I hope will turn into something, and<br>
4. the normal 'residential' uses (like browser, picassa etc).<br>
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But, I think fedora will be a poor choice for production. Mostly
cause their updates are frequent and large and I don't really know
how that plays out if i were to use fedora in production. I am also
not sure what controls they have on what source gets in. The
companies that I had worked for that used linux ususally used
CentOS. That seems to be a dead end now. Whether or not this is a
big deal I don't know. But, I'd be a fool to not think about it. <br>
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This is why I tried freebsd a while ago and posted here about it.
Since I haven't seen any mention of it, I assume freebsd 9.0 is
still not in the picture for CCL 1.8.<br>
I am harping about this cause I think it's the O/S that has
minimal influence from the general public needs. Also fewer updates.
I think that works good for server O/S.<br>
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-Antony<br>
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