[Flame Bait] - Linux as bloatware

[Les Mikesell]

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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