Re:I agree (Score 1)

Hello, Linux may have been started by Linus in Finland, but he by no means wrote the whole thing. Micrsoft has been unable to duplicate it for many reasons. One of which is the lack of motivation needed, they already have their market cornered. The other one is once an OS gets to a certain point, its basically how many people look at the code, not the man-hours put in. If you have 10,000 people looking at code each for 1 hour a day in their spare time, you will find more bugs than if you have 1,000 people looking for 10 hours a day. Every person can find different bugs and holes. EVERY coder makes mistakes, and usually they learn from them, but in such a large project as an OS, it becomes VERY hard to spot your own mistakes. As for the uptimes, it really is a matter of how you use it, I can never seem to actually use my desktop for what I do, lots of programming and running many things at one, and keep it running for more than a couple days, no matter what Microsoft version I use. However, using Mandrake 9.2, I have a system that installed very smoothly, and have had running for 36 days 11 hours 5 minutes and counting. The only reason for that last reboot was the power went out during a really bad storm. However, my laptop, which has some technology that currently is unsupported in Linux, CAN run Windows XP for days on end without problems, though it is a laptop, so it gets very little chance to actually do it.