RE: [announcement] SYSAPI and SYSSVC for Windows

From: amado.alves (amado.alves_at_netcabo.pt)
Date: 12/17/03 

Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:17:47 -0000
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>

[Windows vs. Linux]

This is OT,, but whataheck, I'd like to share my recent experience and impressions. I'm trying to reinstall Linux on my laptop after a disc crash. RedHat 9 used to install, but RedHat is gone commercial now so I tried Fedora. It failed miserably (over the network). I also tried Debian over the network, Mandrake over the network, and Mandrake with CDs. I even tried Plan 9 network. All with floppies, because my CD does not boot. All failed. All fail setting the graphic system. Many fail in other things also. The Mandrake case is incredible. The installation goes graphic fine, but the last step about configuring X fails: it's incredibly stupid and irritating: if the graphic is working why doesn't the bloody thing continue with the same parameters? And then it cannot recover. All other installations except Plan 9 fail partially right from the start: they start loosing text lines. Framebuffer problems I think. Is informatics a fraud or what? I'm close to go growing watermellons like Xanana Gusmao.

Just to prove why Windows is an *excelent* system--except for price. But now it seems you'll have to pay for Linux too. RedHat starts at 179 dollars I think. So there is still hope for AdaOS ;-)