Randall Schulz wrote:

Martin,

At Tuesday 24 August 2004 15:39 in alt.sci.seti Martin 53N 1W wrote:

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Martin 53N 1W wrote:

Instead, try _reading_ the original post and the _full_ _answer_.

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He also asked the open-ended question "What OS seems to give the best
performance ..." and also asked under what environment was the SETI@home
software developed. He did not presume any particular OS or range of OSes
as likely answers.

I see no problem with suggesting Linux in reply to the original query.

Good luck,
Martin

Randall Schulz

Thanks for the backup. I was sure I wasn't being OS-evangelical in the original reply.


I guess some can be a little touchy for something they've paid lots of money for and spent lots of time on. (I know both WinXX and linux very well, amongst others.)

Regards,
Martin