: >I've also heard similiar claims that NT is more Unix-like than 95. Are : : Yes, but NT is laughable, and bloated, Remember any computer software company that calls the boot partition system and the system partition, boot will muck up most anything. As for NT being Unix like - in their dreams! it is unix like in only the widest sense, it is still windows and it is still bloatware. (Try and get a NT server to install onto 10 meg of HD space. to just do firewalling/routing) NT is just Windows95 with some security stuff thrown in. (and disk access that should have been included with win95) : Basically, these OS's will give you up to a 50% cut in battery life : due to computational efficiency of the OS, require you to have a : higher end CPU for the same tasks, require about 4X the memory, and : have ridiculous reliability numbers. Yes, NT will suck the life out of a fast computer.. NT will drive you nuts on a 486 while Unix will run quickly and smoothly (using X too!) : In general, traditional desktop OSs are bad for wearables. With Linux : you at least have a chance to redo it correctly. Exactly! I run linux 1.2x for my wearable because of the speed gains and I can get the kernel very very small. That's the neat part of linux, you dont have to use the latest and greatest.. you use what works best for you. (FreeBSD is encompassed in this statement too.) I just hope that MacOS will be trimmed down. The scary part is that Gates, will probably influence it and bloat that puppy up to win98 sizes. (and insert a 640K memory limit for nostalgia) -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org
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