[openbeos] Re: Updating OSes bit by bit
- From: "Scott MacMaster" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 18:53:00 -0400
> i refered in this one more about the driver load and compatibility load.
what
> makes windows a pain in the ass to use and makes linux sometimes a pain to
> config is the attempt to satisfy a large amount of devices out there. i
mean
> i still cannot use my networking card i especially bought once to work
under
> linux, windows and beos. somehow the driver doesn't recognize the card
> although the chip should match the drivers. and without network connection
an
> os in todays world is doomed. keep it small and sleek. the rest will
> (hopefully) come once the time is right.
So what you are saying, I think, is that the larger number of drivers makes
Windows unweildy and unstable?
In 95/98/ME series, the biggest source of instability was the mixing of 16
bit and 32 bit code (for backward compatibilty). Dispite the results they
did do a decent job at it. In the NT/2000/XP series, the biggest source of
instability is from the drivers. This driver issue is not the number of
stables but rather some of kernel land. My graphics driver has brought down
my XP system a number of times. However, it has never crashed for any other
reason and if anybody else tries to tell me 98 SE is more stable then XP
again they're getting trout slapped :)
Later,
Scott MacMaster
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