On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 09:12:56AM +0000, Chris Withers wrote:
John Poltorak wrote:
Chris - why are you on OS/2, btw?
I remember Lord Gates telling me, many years ago, that OS/2 was going to be the biggest program of all time and I believed him ;-)...
I guess I just stuck with it since I didn't want to be on the upgrade treadmill, didn't like viruses and wanted to be in control of what my computer was doing rather than having mysterious upgrades being auto-installed.
So go for Linux or MacOS X and end your pain on suffering. FWIW, I'm on Win2K, don't have any autoupdating going on and don't use any M$ software apart from Windows and Office, so don't have too many viri to contend with...
I actually like OS/2, and unlike Linux it has had threading built into it from day one and it works pretty well. Personally I would not be surprised if Zope running on OS/2 outperformed Zope running on Linux using the same hardware. Besides that, more and more open source software is now buildable on OS/2 so there is little point in moving away. In fact XFree86 4.4.0 became available for OS/2 before Linux, AFAIK. Now it looks as though I can build Zope 2.7.0 straight from source without requiring any patches at all, so there is much less suffering involved than there used to be. As for virii, I am not aware of a single one which affects OS/2. 'Security through obscurity' is quite a useful motto ;-)...
Chris
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