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Then should we consider Windows or other commerical software for anything designed to outlast a 5 year period?
by static_noise 10y ago
Then should we consider Windows or other commerical software for anything designed to outlast a 5 year period?
- lagadu 10y agoWhat's the alternative? Old MacOS versions also don't support newer hardware, old Linux kernels neither. By your reasoning, no operating system should ever be considered for anything designed to outlast a 7 year period (which is windows' 7 age).
- creshal 10y ago> Old MacOS versions also don't support newer hardware Which is why nobody uses MacOS in production for anything but end user devices. > old Linux kernels neither They do. All major enterprise distributions backport drivers exactly for that reason – and unlike with Windows, you can update the kernel in place without having to touch any other part of your software stack. Your software won't care whether it's running on top of Linux 2.4 or 4.2, but it will care whether it's running on Windows 7 or Windows 10.
- pavlov 10y agoProbably not? I'd be perfectly happy to see BSD deployed more regularly in these kinds of environments.