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very basic GUI
You know that you can install install Sun Java Desktop, which is basicall Gnome, right?
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15 years in IT, and I have never seen that in production.
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I have installed the gnome there, the amount of available applets is extremely poor
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Thats because they only used the ones that ship with gnome itself (slackware does the same) , no extra ones. ubuntu etc.... ship with additional ones.
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you cah have quite a few administration tools in RHEL/CentOS, and entire GUI for everything in SLES, almost everything in Debian/Ubuntu... all for free, no need to do anything too complicated
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>ReactOS for example.
ReactOS is a terrible example. It's got layers upon layers of bugs. First, you've got the ReactOS kernel which was written from scratch, then you've got the Wine layer which provides the Windows binary compatibility for its userland, and then you've got the Windows userland. While it might in the future become useful as a Windows alternative (if it ever gets out of alpha stage), it's unlikely that it will ever be used for a production server.
ReactOS is a terrible example. It's got layers upon layers of bugs. First, you've got the ReactOS kernel which was written from scratch, then you've got the Wine layer which provides the Windows binary compatibility for its userland, and then you've got the Windows userland. While it might in the future become useful as a Windows alternative (if it ever gets out of alpha stage), it's unlikely that it will ever be used for a production server.
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Yeah i know if you actually read my post I was using it as an example with relation to the comment
i was making the point that other options like reactos get no developers because they are all involved in linux.
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while all the Linux-fanatics spout their propaganda, preventing any up and coming mind which is willing to explore other options, from ever exploring anything else.
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Originally Posted by jbennet 
i was making the point that other options like reactos get no developers because they are all involved in linux.
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Originally Posted by DimaYasny
examples please? windows server systems are in most cases much slower than *nix based systems, used for the same tasks on the same hardware.
even windows native smb/cifs is outperformed by properly tuned samba on linux
But, the thing to consider with Windows (XP or Vista), is that the OS has system calls for desktop graphics. That isn't something present in Linux.
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Originally Posted by DimaYasny
solaris has its own issues.
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Originally Posted by michinobu_zoned
I honestly can't say too much about webservers, since I have no experience with them. But, I did read that Windows exceptionally well for desktop systems. My textbook, however, was refering to XP. Vista is a bit different, in that it tries to better implement Symmetrical Multi-Processing. I think that as a result, you end up losing some of the performance you'd have with XP in single-processing.
But, the thing to consider with Windows (XP or Vista), is that the OS has system calls for desktop graphics. That isn't something present in Linux.
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I know, but I just bring it up because it feels to me that people out there act like Linux is the shit, and that's all there is to it. Linux is good for specific things, but it's not the end-all OS solution for any problem.
my company actually runs on zimbra, and we are pretty happy with the product, nobody misses the old exchange days
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IMHO windows servers are much easier to administer. Linux systems are cheaper from a licensing point of view but many companies already have admins trained in windows and own ms licences. for them its often cheaper just to stay with ms rather than face headaches.
No? SMP has been supported like since NT4.
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Vista is a bit different, in that it tries to better implement Symmetrical Multi-Processing. I think that as a result, you end up losing some of the performance you'd have with XP in single-processing.
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