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Xref: sserve comp.sys.powerpc:30139 comp.sys.intel:25827 comp.os.misc:3539 comp.unix.bsd:15667 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:7826 comp.unix.sys5.r4:8873 comp.unix.misc:15170 comp.os.linux.development:21548 comp.os.linux.misc:32087 comp.os.linux.misc:32088 comp.os.386bsd.development:2857 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4491 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!jjs From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD? Date: 20 Dec 1994 02:10:53 GMT Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside Lines: 33 Message-ID: <3d5efd$fpn@galaxy.ucr.edu> References: <3cilp3$143@news-2.csn.net> <3d4o1h$7bh@galaxy.ucr.edu> <3d4ucp$sbn@hearst.cac.psu.edu> <1994Dec20.004238.17846@slate.mines.colorado.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dostoevsky.ucr.edu In article <1994Dec20.004238.17846@slate.mines.colorado.edu>, Ade Barkah <mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu> wrote: >Kenneth J. Hoover (ken@psuedvax.ed.psu.edu) wrote: >: ...or who want a lightning-fast file-and-print-server OS that's not >: riddled with security holes for bored CS students to hack in their >: spare time... > >This is a joke, right ? Any NT user can easily spawn a background >process that capture passwords, etc. Ever looked the way keyclick >messages are sent to applications ? Any damn process can intercept >and/or read it, whether or not the message belongs to it. > >And let's not even mention `lightning fast.' Right next to me >I have a DECpc 450st with 64mb RAM, and I've put DOS, UNIX >(I've tested Microport svr4.0, and now FreeBSD), and NT AS on it. >Tell me again which one is `lightning fast.' > ... more solid analysis deleted for bandwidth sake... It's great to hear the voice of reason ringing out loud and clear amidst all the windoze NT hype and hoopla! kudos to Ade Barkah for some clear thinking and telling it like it is... We too have had a chance to compare NT "advanced server" to some real implementations of UNIX (DEC/OSF UNIX, Linux) on a couple platforms and beleive me, NT suffers badly in the comparison - the results of the comparison are rather amusing, except for the die-hard NT advocates... -- jjs@wintermute.ucr.edu / You can't figure out how to A linux machine! because a 486 / ACCELERATE your Windoze NT box? is a terrible thing to waste! / -9.8 m/s^2 works quite well!!!