Linux Rulz!!!

[kryptech.net]

Come on, Who thinks Linux Rulz.

[NCanCoder]

Of course. That's why Mac OS 10 is using Unix as a backbone and wouldn't you guess Longhorn is incorporating a lot or if not all technologies used by BASH and TKL. The way Microsoft puts it you would think they just invented the wheel. If M$ couldn't copy things from others they would have never got past DOS 1.0

Peter

[sicarius]

Yeah well. Such is life.

Linux is good, but it has a long way to go before it "Rulz".

The new 2.6 series of kernels is a big step along the path, but they also need to have more success integrating their desktop environments with the rest of the OS.

All the work to replace X is probably a good first step. It may give GNOME and KDE a little bit more to work with.

[stuka]

IMO, having the GUI integrated with the OS is a large part of Windows' issues. I mean seriously, if my X server locks hard, I can still log in via SSH and kill the process, and voila! back in action again. No reboot, no potential loss of data (except in programs dependent on the X server, which SHOULD be very few with persistent data).

[valan]

Originally posted by NCanCoder
If M$ couldn't copy things from others they would have never got past DOS 1.0

Actually they never would have gotten to dos 1.0. Before dos, ms had a version of unix called xenix. ms didnt create dos either, they got it for $50,000 by the name of qdos, which was based on cp/m.

But yeah, linux is far superior to any ms operating system.

[Whiteknight]

"But yeah, linux is far superior to any ms operating system."

i would argue this point tooth and nail. i contend that WinXp is far superior to any comparable mainstream linux distro.

and on the issue of stealing, linux isnt unix (if i remember the recursive acronym correctly), and was meerly an opensource rewrite of the popular operating system. Linus didnt invent Linux from the ground up, he simply added a unix kernel rewrite to the GNU project (GNU's not unix) which was itself a rewrite of the unix utilities and command shells. everybody steals things in the computer world, at least when MS needs new code, they license it from the legal owners, and dont jip the original authors out of royalty money.

thats the one thing that i never liked about linux philosophy: the true visionaries are deprecated, and the great ideas get stolen and rewritten for free.

[NCanCoder]

XP, I must agree. M$ has done a reasonably nice job on it. I've just recently installed in on my computer and it runs very well and my wife has run it on her machine now for 7 months with far less problems than 98SE.

Now, let's be careful what pedestal we put M$ on. I seem to remember an issue between SunMicro about Java and I don't recall any mention of M$ or Apple for that matter giving Xerox billions of dollars for thier major contribution of the GUI system we use today in 1957.

[Whiteknight]

I'm certainly not putting MS on a pedastool of any variety. I dont like the company, nor their business practices. however, i do realize that theirs is the single best OS on the market in a number of catagories, and that ignoring that is foolhardy.

not only in terms of use, but also programming in Win32 i have found is preferable to programming in linux. Win32 API functions are all well named, and easy to recognize and use. Windows threads are far superior to Pthreads, and the inter-thread and inter-process communication is much more advanced in windows then it is in linux.