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A Z (arek_z@yahoo.com)
Sun, 28 Feb 1999 01:13:38 -0800 (PST)
> The Windows registry is an extremely clumsy and inconvenient means
for storing
> configuration information. It makes it difficult to have multiple
instances of
> the same service on the same machine. In the end, you still have to
pass
> environment strings or command line arguments to the service to tell
it which
> registry key to use so that different instances of the process use
different
> config info. There are many other bad things you could say about the
> registry, this is just one of them.
Also I read (from Bugtraq, I think) that even though you may delete
keys in the registry they aren't actually deleted. Thus the registry
_always_ grows, no matter what. (thus means longer starts and
shutdowns as the comp has to write read/write to/from the reg).
Plus, if you want to do one thing in winblows NT you have to go
through a lot of other junk to get there. That means moving your slow
ass mouse, clicking through those options (thus opening a program you
might not need just to get to a screen), where as in linux it's just
say vi and your done. Or a sed or an awk script to fix a few config
words.
Faster, more configurable, less resources.
-arek
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