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| Authored by: jesse on Monday, May 13 2013 @ 02:42 AM EDT |
The original message happened to include hash keys that MS could use to identify
the poster.
The repost removed these to protect the posters anonymity.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 13 2013 @ 03:29 AM EDT |
From observation Linux is faster.
I had an old P3-667 IBM ThinkPad with Bodhi Linux installed. It ran like a
demon. Gave it to a friend for her son to use, she installed Windows XP
SP2 and it ran like molasses in January.
Also my son got asked to help diagnose his buddy's girlfriend's old white
box P3, don't know the speed. Ubuntu 12.04 ran quite quickly on it, when
we reinstalled Windows SP3 it ran slower.
We didn't run any test suites, the above is by observation only, but I'm
pretty certain of the differences. On both machines I used Firefox, Libre
Office, and VLC. Note that once the applications were open they worked
fine, they just took a long time to start.
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Monday, May 13 2013 @ 08:35 AM EDT |
PJ, the insights in
the article
(link is to a repost) about what proprietary
software development is like at a
large, ossified
corporation transcends the question of whether the author
was
a real bonafide Microsoft developer.
As a software engineer myself, I
can tell you that the
author of the article seems to have inside knowledge of
NT
kernel development, and is clearly a low level developer
himself. More than
that, the article rings true to another
software developer.
Hesitating
to make a news pick out of it because you
can't be sure of its authenticity
misses the point. This was
a rant directed to a limited audience - other low
level
software developers. What he is saying may be applied more
broadly to
organizations other than just Microsoft, and is
not as shocking as it may seem
for that reason. Personally I
am satisfied that you don't make it a news pick,
because I
don't want Microsoft to take this to heart and wake up. I
rather you
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