Re: More benchmark bullshit, and Linux luser mating calls... (was Re: Linux betas NT in TPC testing, running Oracle8

In article <ePPy407j#GA.51_at_cpmsnbbsa03>,   "Joshua Schaeffer" <electric_ninja_at_email.msn.com> wrote:
> >Oh, linux has _plenty_ of flaws, just fewer than WindowsNT for example.
>
> Would you care to elaborate? And be specific.

One big one. Linux does not come with a version of Motif or a GPL equivilant capable of running shared library model Netscape Communicator. As a result, users want to run their favorite application (Netscape) on a Linux system and Netscape goes berserk sucking up memory for the Motif library and all of it's support modules. The memory usage swells to 48 meg. To make matters worse, Communicator 4.5 has a memory leak that eventually gobbles up all the swap space and a paging demand that takes up all the real RAM. It makes Linux look dawg slow and ugly.

This is actually an architecture bug. The application architect for Communicator should have planned for non-Motif toolkits. Furthermore, when Netscape came out with Navigator/Communicator for Linux, they should have either "filled in the holes" to lesstif or switch to the Athena 3d widgets. If this were done, the two subsystems would dance together beautifully and Linux would have a good shot at the desktop.

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Rex Ballard - Open Source Advocate, Internet Architect, MIS Director
http://www.open4success.com

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