[Zope] Re: Windows vs. Linux

[Patrick Price]

Did I fall into a coma and UNIX has been replaced by something called 
Linux?    Don't forget there are other good UNIX OS's out there (BSD and 
Solaris) that have better security and less patching than most versions 
of the so-called Linuxes, some of which are OK too. :-) -Patrick

Stephan Goeldi wrote:
>>I am interested in developing with Zope.  Is there a distinct advantage as
>>to using Windows or Linux as a desktop system for development.  I am
> 
> willing
> 
>>to use either system.  Thank You.
> 
> 
> It ... depends. Developing a 'normal' website with Zope should be no problem
> for DOS (i.e. win95/98/ME). But I experienced a problem once when I worked
> with background conversion of word/excel/powerpoint/pdf documents (for
> document library in Zope). The DOS OS's (win95/98/ME) didn't react for about
> 90 seconds, while win NT and 2000 took about 25 seconds (to let python
> convert about 100 documents using 3rd party software in the background).
> Linux did it in about 15 seconds.
> 
> So your first choice is Linux
> Second choice windows nt or 2000
> xp? have a look at www.goeldi.com/pics/xp.jpg (this is no joke but real
> advertisement for a stupid people!)
> the last choice is micros~1.oft DOS (i.e. win95, 98 and ME, while ME is the
> worst crap I ever saw)
> 
> I personally work with NT 4.0 and RedHat Linux 7.3 on my Desktop (Dualboot).
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