Bacchante - Slashdot User

Comment Re:if you want Windows, use Windows. F250 vs Corve (Score 1) 550

by Bacchante on Monday November 17, 2014 @02:31PM (#48404023) Attached to: Longtime Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen Resigns From Systemd Maintainer Team

It's no surprise that Linux makes a better server than Windows

debatable

, a much better phone,

debatable

and works well on a router where Windows can't run at all.

Debatable? See how many supercomputers in Top500 run Linux and how many of them run Windows. I will answer that for you - only 1 supercomputer in Top500 list run on Windows... There is a reason why almost any performance-centric system prefers Linux-based distros.

Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier 590

Posted by Soulskill on Monday September 06, 2010 @02:14PM from the no-substitute-for-experience dept.

theodp writes "Raw intellect ain't always all it's cracked up to be, advises Ted Dziuba in his introduction to Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier, so don't be too stubborn to learn the things that can save you from the headaches of over-engineering. Here's some sample how-to-avoid-over-complicating-things advice: 'If Linux can do it, you shouldn't. Don't use Hadoop MapReduce until you have a solid reason why xargs won't solve your problem. Don't implement your own lockservice when Linux's advisory file locking works just fine. Don't do image processing work with PIL unless you have proven that command-line ImageMagick won't do the job. Modern Linux distributions are capable of a lot, and most hard problems are already solved for you. You just need to know where to look.' Any cautionary tips you'd like to share from your own experience?"

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