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On 4/11/07, Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,


On the other hand, the system i5 has dreadful graphics, sound, etc,
capabilities. Linux blows it out of the water in those areas.

that is true, but I would express it as support for device drivers and
other features of a desktop OS. So we have to limit the comparison to
server OSes. ;)

Linux
has drastically more applications available for it, and most of those
applications are free.

this actually gets to my question, which is could GNU C be compiled by
the ILE C compiler. I have never gotten around to trying it, and the
16 meg alloc limit imposed by the SLS would be a problem. The point
is if the pointer size of i5/OS was increased to 32 bytes you would
not have the segment limit of the system and possibly a lot of Linux
apps could run native in i5/OS.

There are all sorts of pros and cons. It's absurd to say that i5/OS is
better than Linux. It's absurd to say the opposite, as well. It's
absurd to say RPG is better than C or that C is better than RPG. Both
sides have strengths and weaknesses, and which one is "better" depends
entirely on what you're doing.

gee, just trying to learn something...

-Steve

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