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Re: Comparison of Ubuntu and OpenSolaris

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____/ Rick on Thursday 05 June 2008 02:50 : \____

> On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:39:20 -0700, Tim Smith wrote:
> 
>> In article <14972994.3UsY2bAEaZ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>  Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> support, which is why Sun sucks up to Linux devs. The same goes for Mac
>>> OS X, which has very limited hardware support (so people go to the
>>> Apple 'toy shop' for peripherals).
>> 
>> What peripherals would those be, Roy?
>> 
>> For peripherals that ordinary people use, OS X has better support than
>> Linux.  Take a look at scanners, cameras, and printers, for example.
>> It's quite common to find that the ones that Linux people are busy
>> boycotting to try to get support for include Mac support.
> 
> I often wonder why, with OS X using CUPS, why there aren't more Linux
> printer drivers.

Linux uses CUPS too, but the point made at the start was less about peripherals
and more about things like architectures with other features that make it
suitable for anything from mobiles to supercomputers. Neither Windows nor OS X
can offer that because they are focused on particular type of use and lack of
modularity leads to separate maintenance of different 'cores' (e.g. Windows
Mobile, Windows Cluster, Windows Server). Even Microsoft admitted this problem
and it strives to make its design more modular. It said it would do it, but it
never did based on Microsoft watchers. The code remains messy and hard to
maintain. It's monolithic.

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