I believe that you get what you pay for.
The last time I looked there were over 200 flavors of Unix with many
significant differences. There are now several flavors of Linux....any
differences ?
The use of core resident shareable packages goes back many years, at least
as far back as DEC's VMS. They have also been available in QNX.
This is the alternative to the standard Unix approach of each application
carrying along its copy of a run time library - although that is changing.
The problem with DLL's is not the fact that it is a DLL, but rather a
consequence of how we do business these days.
MS writes a DLL; quality control is some what lacking. Bugs appear or new
functionality is required so a new version appears.
Many developers could care less about worrying about DLL versions and really
do not act in a responsible manner.
Users are 'suckers' and will load anything - just to try it - especially if
a game, bootleg copy, etc.
Hard to see how Debian changes that.
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Wooldridge <kc0dxf@yahoo.com>
To: tentec@contesting.com <tentec@contesting.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Thursday, September 09, 1999 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Pegasus Software/PcPakRatt Version 1.0/NT 4.0
Performance
>
>Why not choose a free operating system? The Debian
>project is a not for profit Linux based Distribution.
>The Debian Social contract is a guarantee of
>commitment to users that all software will conform to
>the Debian Free Software Guidelines (which are the
>same as the Open Source definition).
>http://www.debian.org/social_contract/
>
>The current distribution (2.1) contains over 2000
>software packages (including many HAM apps) which are
>stable and do not load conflicting libraries (like
>DLLs) when you install one. All dependencies are
>managed by the three level Debian package management
>system which also allows easy upgrades to the whole
>system
>
>Of course, Debian will run on intel x86 based
>computers as well as many others.
>
>More info:
>http://www.debian.org
>
>
>
>--- Steve Baron <SteveBaron@starlinx.com> wrote:
>>
>> That is certainly one way to go that but is not risk
>> free especially with
>> Norton stuff. Versions and file dependencies are
>> very complicated and may
>> be totally ignored by some programs. Problems
>> created by users e.g.
>> repeatedly installing a program without uninstalling
>> it typically remain.
>>
>> IMHO, the preferred way is for the vendor to
>> 'expose' the files so one can
>> look before installing.
>>
>> There is a somewhat false sense of security created
>> by some of the wizards
>> which are used by the software developers. Things
>> are made to look so
>> simple, but there are some real traps.
>>
>> Picture the person who spends time doing all they
>> can to over come their Y2K
>> paranoia only to then laod a program which over
>> writes their updates !
>>
>> Same type of thing with NT service packs.
>>
>> It 'ain't' horrible but their are definitely times
>> when is isn't very
>> friendly, so I prefer to check first.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bill_Ames@hyperion.com
>> <Bill_Ames@hyperion.com>
>> To: geraldj@ames.net <geraldj@ames.net>
>> Cc: Steve Baron <SteveBaron@starlinx.com>; Karl
>> Heimbach
>> <heimbachk@mindspring.com>; tentec@contesting.com
>> <tentec@contesting.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
>> Date: Thursday, September 09, 1999 5:23 PM
>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Pegasus Software/PcPakRatt
>> Version 1.0/NT 4.0
>> Performance
>>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >There are programs that will record every file that
>> is installed when you
>> do an
>> >install and make a backup of any file that the
>> install changes. You can
>> even
>> >have this program uninstall the most recent
>> installed program. Norton
>> Uninstall
>> >is one that I have used. Someone should use such a
>> tool and tell us just
>> what is
>> >being installed.
>> >
>> >
>> >Bill Ames
>> >KB1LG
>
>
>
>
>===
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