Re: FN-FORUM: Best Linux Distribution?

date posted 19th August 2004 11:16

On Thursday 19 Aug 2004 12:11 am, Aaron Brailsford wrote:
> Richard Lowe wrote:
> > Unix was designed as a server operating system foremost
>
> True, but Linux !=3D Unix ;) (pedants hat on there)

Walks like Unix, quacks like Unix.

> > And the registry is a superb idea.
>
> I think you might anger the Dom with that one ;) And I'll take issue

Actually, it was more amusement than anger.

> too.. how is it a superb idea?



You forgot to mention that searching the Registry uses a special=20
Microsoft algorithm that is neither polynomial nor exponential in=20
execution time but actually uses a whole branch of number theory=20
that has yet to be discovered!