In comp.os.linux.advocacy, raylopez99
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on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:58:29 -0700
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>> raylopez99 wrote:
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>> How's the weather in Greece ...
>
> How would I know? I have an open relay and am posting from non-
> Greece.
>
> How'se the weather in your basement cubicle, you Vitamin D challenged
> COLA nerd? Have you got your Linux distro installed (that's half the
> fun--or is it all the fun--with Linux)?
>
> Real people use a real OS like Windows (TM).
>
> RL
>
And what, pray tell, defines a "real OS"?
Be specific.
Some characteristics of both I can readily identify.
[1] File management. Both abstract data as files and
directories. Windows IE further abstracts the
problem as documents and folders, though it's a light
abstraction; I've seen more comprehensive (since I
used to work in the CAD/CAM/CAE space).
[2] Memory management. Both provide virtual memory,
and can map files into virtual memory; the process
thinks it's reading memory with the kernel handling
the page faults, reading the file on its behalf.
[3] Video. Both handle video, and various problems
relating thereto such as drawing windows, digital
rights management, and codecs.
[4] Audio. Both handle audio, MIDI, and synthesis.
[5] Network packet communications. The full specification
of network communications could probably hold books,
but suffice it to say both OSes handle TCP/IP, and
higher-level protocols like SMTP (email), HTTP, and
FTP. Windows further implements SOAP, though add-on
packages for Linux are also available.
[6] Drag and drop. Strictly speaking, this is more related
to the GUI than the OS, but both Linux and Windows
implement some variant of dragging an icon and then
dropping it into a window. (In Linux's case, however,
the D&D is handled by a higher level: KDE or Gnome.)
[7] Text editing. One can quibble regarding Linux but both
solutions provide rudimentary text editing, with access
to more sophisticated solutions.
[8] Web browsing. This might be a combination of [3] and
[5], and Linux does *not* implement Web browsing
as such, but most distros throw in Firefox, Galeon,
Epiphany, and Konqueror, all of which can be used for
web browsing.
There's a few more but this post runs overlong already.
So go ahead; sell me on Windows and its "real OS" capabilities.
If nothing else, I need the exercise in tearing your arguments
into ragged shreds. :-P
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