[ Thanks to Ken
Treis for this link. ]
“Windows 2000 Magazine publishes a weekly email newsletter
called Windows 2000 Magazine UPDATE. In their June 13th issue, they
published an editorial entitled “The Linux Bubble Bursts As
Microsoft Dodges Another Bullet”. Never to miss an opportunity for
advocacy, the Signal Ground team presents a rebuttal below….”
“To put things in perspective, it is helpful to consider the
history of both platforms. In mid-1995 (August), the 1.2.13 version
of the Linux kernel was released. A few months earlier (June),
Windows NT 3.51 was released. Both platforms have come a long way;
even so, it’d be an instructive exercise to dig up the 1.2.13
sources and examine the number of supported hardware devices. You’d
be hard pressed to fit that list on anything as small as Thurrott
claims.”
“Consumer hardware support on Linux sometimes still lags
behind that of the Windows world, but the picture is changing.
In recent news, Linux support was recently made available for
Quantum’s new UltraATA/100 disk interface. Additionally, Linux is
often one of the first operating systems to run on new hardware
platforms (like IBM’s Power4 chip) because Linux is so easy to
port. Can the NT kernel claim to run on both an Itanium and an iPAQ
handheld? Hardly.”