As a Unix admin you have NIS or DNS but not a hell of a lot else as far as true managment goes. Active Directory allows me easy managment of most any size. NIS is a pain in the ****, worse then the old Domain system from NT which is saying a lot.



I can have 2k running the moment it starts up with no another config needed what so over. Heck, I can tell it what I want it to do and walk off and never worry about it again.



Didn't knock nopistons.net, I like the site and think using PHP Nuke is a good idea makes life easier from and admin standpoint. ASP.NET is faster then PHP all the way around as it's a compiled not interpeted language. Dunno if they are going to set PHP up to be compiled. Didn't say I can do better, but I do think I can get a lot more flex out of ASP.NET then you can with PHP.



Sorry if you thought I was knocking the site, again I like it a lot



If you're box finds bad memory and spits it out I wish mine would do the same. About half the time you get nothing but GPF's (OH wait, excuse me, "Illegall Operations") and wonder what's up. At least OS/2 would give a Trap 2 error.



Linux has a MAJOR security breech that was uncovered today. Pity they won't make a huge deal about it and jump up and down and scream.



A lot of IIS security issues are a lack of attention on the admins parts and/or front page extensions...which blow major chunks. I HATE frontpage.



Linux has almost zero support and the support it does have blows hard. Never want to trust anything serious to it unless I was running IBM's version...but that's IBM for you.



Easy isn't always better, but as 2k is every bit as powerfull as Linux is and easier to get to that point I think it comes down to personal preference.



I don't knock Microsoft just because everyone else hates them, I tend to use what works. This is why I stuck to OS/2 for as long as I did...it worked even if it was a pain to deal with at points.

 

This topic sucks.





PS it's not PHP-Nuke....

 

Damn I must be in a crappy mood today...

 

I didn't... i was moving it around the screen and took a screen shot... the point was that xp was using 100% of my processor to move task manager in a circle. All I want is an operating system that doesn't kill itself after a couple months of playing games. I don't know how reliable linux is, but the reason I don't run it is because there are no games for it. And my computer is just a big game machine anyway so there isn't much point either, unless they come out with a decent linux app that can run windows software.

 

also i figure with billions of dollars you would be able to write an os that was "perfect" and didn't have ANY bugs, it can't be THAT hard can it?

 

and please excuse phinsup he seems to be pmsing today :newlaugh:

 

It isn't? Cool, looked like it from where I was sitting, but I wasn't looking all that hard. Still love the site no matter what it's written in.

 

I didn't... i was moving it around the screen and took a screen shot... the point was that xp was using 100% of my processor to move task manager in a circle. All I want is an operating system that doesn't kill itself after a couple months of playing games. I don't know how reliable linux is, but the reason I don't run it is because there are no games for it. And my computer is just a big game machine anyway so there isn't much point either, unless they come out with a decent linux app that can run windows software.[/quote]

Games are always brutal to a computer, esepecially some of the older games. I've got an old 486 for playing some DOS games on when I don't feel like fighting with XP. Usually something with video that kills em.

 

Everyone has em bro, no worries here

 

Im on Windows 98