Verily I say unto thee, that nick spake thusly:
> http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070408
Here's some interesting comparisons between Debian Etch and Vista:
Project Life-cycle:
. Debian - 1.75 years (Etch)
. Vista - 5.50 years
Supported Architectures:
. Debian - Sparc, Alpha, PowerPC, i386, ia64, PA-RISC, MIPS, ARM, IBM
S/390, AMD64 and Intel EM64T. (Older custom versions for the
Motorola MC68K series)
. Vista - Technically ... none, since it doesn't really work.
Available Desktop Environments / Window Managers:
. Debian - 3D-Desktop, 4dwm, 5Dwm, 9wm, aewm, AfterStep, amiwm,
Blackbox, Compiz/Beryl, CTWM, dwm, EDE (Equinox),
Enlightenment, EvilPoison, evilwm, Fluxbox, foXdesktop,
FVWM, FVWM95, FVWM-Crystal, Gnome, hackedbox, HaZe, IceWM,
Ion, JD4X (Java Desktop), JWM, Kahakai, KDE, KWin, Larswm,
Luminocity, LWM, Matchbox, Metacity, Metisse, MWM (Motif),
OLWM/OLVWM, Openbox, Orion, Oroborus, PekWM, PLWM, PWM,
Qvwm, ratpoison, ROX, Sawfish, Scwm, Stumpwm, swm, The GREAT
Desktop, TrsWM, twm, UDE, uwm, Waimea, WindowLab, Window
Maker, wm2, WMI, wmii, XD640, XFCE, Xfwm, XPde, XPwm, XWEM
. Vista - Aero
Price:
. Debian - Â0.00
. Vista - Â187.48 (Home Premium - a.k.a. The "real" version) [Amazon]
License:
. Debian - Mainly GPL/LGPL. Full sources available at no cost.
. Vista - Proprietary. SDKs only. (Limited Sources available to select
partners and government agencies).
Role/Deployment:
. Debian - Server, Desktop, Media Centre, Office, Cluster /
Supercomputing, Any Purpose.
. Vista - Experimental Desktop, Toy, Practical Joke.
Summary:
. Debian - "Support for Debian is among the most complete you can find
in the open source world. Debian is traditionally a
distribution of developers that connect with each other and
with users via email or IRC. Developers respond to bug
reports promptly. Several mailing lists in all supported
languages have high traffic and people that like to help.
If you're in a hurry, you can join the #debian IRC channel
on the freenode network. You can even pay for support if
you want to; debian.org has a list of companies that will
take your money and answer your questions.
Debian is the most truly community-driven distribution,
proud of its GNU name. It supports lots of platforms, and
its software quality assurance is excellent. Security flaws
are fixed in the Etch repositories quickly. With mirrors
all around the world, installation of new packages is
quick. Even if any single Linux company disappears, Debian
will remain intact -- as my desktop OS."
- http://tinyurl.com/yqg3cq (newsforge.com)
. Vista - "I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating
system, which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately
this product is unfit for any user.
- http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2 (hardocp.com)
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K.
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