[Flame Bait] - Linux as bloatware
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 14:23:59 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 16:46, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > >
> > And the whole of this sub-thread arose from a statement that linux is plagued
> > by shared code, whereas windows is not.
> >
> Exactly! and the discussion has just shown the fallacy of that claim.
> Multiple versions that are path dependent, as well as _dllcache
> dependent. LOL
This doesn't mean that shared libraries are coordinated for
re-use of code any better than on windows, just that you
get bloat from concurrent multiple versions instead of
crashes. Which means no one will fix the underlying problem...
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Les Mikesell
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