On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 08:10 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: > Nils Holland wrote: > > Danger - the following is a bit off-topic! > > > > On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 14:50 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: > > > > > >>I have installed Open Office and Firefox [on Windows] which each required a reboot. > > > > > > Well, I'm not aware that Windows requires a reboot after installing > > Firefox, since a while ago I had to install it on a lot of NT boxes. If > > you also install Java, things might look different, though. > > > > You could be right but after all the reboots I lost count. Firefox > and Open Office were no's 3 and 4 of the installed packages after > anti-virus and updates which required reboots. > > Thanks for the info on .NET as I was going to install it today as it > is required for one of the add-on's to the software that is making me > glad that I have short hair so I cannot grab it. :) > > I would like to see a side by side comparison of installing and > upgrading equivilant Linux and Windows XP boxes, including applications. > I can state unequivocally, that Linux does not require a reboot for any software packages except the kernel. You can install, update, remove, and .... with anything you want on Linux and it is instantly available without the need for the time consuming reboot. What has just been said about the windows updates and the .net install graphically display one of the things I hate about M$. And don't forget that at least 75% of all applications software packages installed also require the reboot, not just the OS. (Microcoft Office, Quicken, Turbo Tax, PhotoShop, many games, and the list goes on....) > -- > Robin Laing >
