Better way to determine OS version ? :)

tbyte · Post by **tbyte** » Thu May 06, 2004 12:40 am

It not nice to say that it's running on linux when it is actualy running on FreeBSD

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As you know linux and windoze are not the only OSes in the history of the world

. So be nice do it right way

AssiDragon · Post by **AssiDragon** » Thu May 06, 2004 7:13 am

cca90% of people use windows, the rest 7% linux... so I guess they never really wandered along those lol

keless · Post by **keless** » Thu May 06, 2004 8:15 am

does the *nix distribution flavor matter that much?

typically among *nix the type doesnt matter so much as what libraries/kernal/etc are installed. and neither "linux" or "freeBSD" gives a definate picture for most of that.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu May 06, 2004 10:14 am

AssiDragon wrote:cca90% of people use windows, the rest 7% linux... so I guess they never really wandered along those lol

Yes ofcourse, 90% are lame cattle mixe with lazi developers

and the other are serious developers that use serious development environments (in my case I need it not for game but for simulator that will never run on such unstable and resource consuming platform as windoze

).

Tyn · Post by **Tyn** » Thu May 06, 2004 10:37 am

I think windows bashing has become a bit of a past time, sometimes rightly, but I don't think calling gamers who play their games for the easiest to use platform lazy on a PC, or call developers who prefer Windows to Linux cattle ( most have dual boot btw, that's what I've got, to get the best of both ) is right. The fact that most developers use Windows as their platform of choice ( that includes "serious" developers ) says volumes about Windows not being evil. Just a little annoying sometimes

AssiDragon · Post by **AssiDragon** » Thu May 06, 2004 11:10 am

Anonymous wrote:Yes ofcourse, 90% are lame cattle mixe with lazi developers

Ah, thanks. Imho Windows is far more development friendly as linux or any other either... no need to bug with a million and one version, only one standard has to work.

Anonymous wrote:and the other are serious developers that use serious development environments (in my case I need it not for game but for simulator that will never run on such unstable and resource consuming platform as windoze ).

A lazy developer should not teach me what to and not to... lol As for Windows being unstable, my Windows98SE and WindowsXP PCs froze three (read: 3) times in 6 months altogether. It's easy to install a system bad, not take care of it and then say "it's crap! it crashes!". A properly maintained Windows won't misbehave.