Re: tlug: GUI Linux reliability vs other OS

["Austin Kurahone" <a_downunder@example.com>]

Hi,

Gav wrote,
>Strikes me that the most stable machines in our office are our boring,
>no GUI, Unix boxes that just sit there happily and churn. On the other
>hand, for us they aren't pleasant to use. I realize that the relative
>niceness of a Unix command line versus any GUI is debatable, but for
>doing web stuff *some* kind of GUI is pretty necessary.
>
>Does anyone have any stats about the reliability of Linux with a GUI
>versus other OSs. I've seen loads of stuff about how reliable Linux is
>as a web/file server, but never with any kind of graphical interface.
>We're in the mood for being (moderately) radical, so it might be
>interesting to set one of our design folks up with a Linux machine.

Well lets see,
I use a combination of an outdated Compaq i486 (Prolinea 2200), 
Linux(Slackware 3.3.4) for my web design work, and it is extreemely 
stable.  The GUI (Xfree86) usually causes me no problems, and also there 
are all that is needed for web design available for  X (eg: GIMP 
replaces photoshop, XEmacs replaces BBedit or and other HTML enabled 
editor).

I used to use a mac for web design, but this is much stabler.  There is 
only one problem that I can think of is that Netscape with the Japanese 
patch crashes requalry, but it doen't bring X or my system down, so it 
is only slightly annoying.

If you have any question fell free to e-mail me if you have any 
questions.

Good luck,
Austin Kurahone

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