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Since Linux only holds under 1% marketshare in the OS market...
More highly questionable statistics. Just how does one make such a determination? Unlike M$ soft, Linux either isn't sold by any corporation (Debian), and even if it is, you can get "corporate" distros like Mandrake or Red Hat via third-party outlets such as Linux Central or Edmunds Enterprises, not to mention being able to download ISOs from God-knows-how-many mirror sites all over the world. Since Linux doesn't have the restrictive EULAs that Macro$uck foists onto the buying public, you can buy one set of Linux CDs and install them onto as many systems as you please. The Mandrake CDs that came with the boxed set I bought have been installed onto several different systems. That's one sale for market share, but three different installs. To say that Linux has less than 1% of market share is meaningless.
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IE isn't slow on a decent system. The only time I thought that IE was slow is when I was working on a 486 in the shop. Of course everything is slow on a 486. ;P IE can be slow on Pentium classics with 16MB or less ram. If you have a modern system IE is not slow at all, end of story.
I have a Micron Millenia Extreme (1.8GHz Pentium IV, 256MB RAM, 80GB HD) does this qualify as a "decent system"? I still have Win 95B tucked away on an itty-bitty 3.0GB partition. And it has IE 5.5. Of all the browsers I've used, IE takes longer to load a page than any of the others. Netscape 4.7, and Opera both load pages far faster than IE on Winderz. That's the
real end of the story. That, and the constant BSODs, is why I don't use the damn thing. Unfortunately, IE is jammed into the OS so tightly, I had to reinstall it because I got so sick and tired of seeing all those idiot boxes informing me that such-and-such was broke and I needed to reinstall Winderz. :mad: Furthermore, if so many folks out there do use IE, it's because His Gatesness has seen to it that they don't have any choice in browsers,
not because it's a better browser. If it truly were good, then His Gatesness wouldn't have to force it onto
every user of Windows.
It could stand on its merits alone. Quality: whudda concept :eek:
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[ September 01, 2002: Message edited by: jtpenrod ]
