Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:56:39 -0500, Christian Convey
<conveycj@npt.nuwc.navy.mil> wrote:
> And it really is the case that I've never happened to see a blue screen
> of death on my XP system. I agree that old versions of Windows had this
> problem. But I'm just comparing the most recent versions of Windows and
> Linux. (XP vs. Sarge/2.6.9/udev)
I think another problem (or issue) is that Linux (and not Sarge)
support dozen hardware platforms under the same kernel; developers
have to make things work under different scenarios and that is far
more difficult than making it to work under x86 only, like WinXXX
does.
Linux kernel support hardware architectures like (paste from $KERNEL/arch):
alpha cris ia64 m68knommu ppc sh sparc64 x86_64
arm h8300 m32r mips ppc64 sh64 um
arm26 i386 m68k parisc s390 sparc v850
and all this have to work well. That is not a child play!
Think of how long M$ took to support X86_64? Linux was there since the
beginning!
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