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Hey, but it's good enough for Linus!

Security Systems: http://www.zoneminder.com/
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8513
http://linas.org/linux/secure.html

Alarm Systems: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/How+to+implement+an+alarm+system+with+Asterisk+and+a+webcam
http://www.linux-support.com/cms/diy-burglar-alarm-system/
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/interfacing-disparate-systems

CCTV: http://www.tuxradar.com/content/build-your-own-surveillance-zoneminder
http://www.seattlesurveillance.com/

Building Automation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092658050500097X
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1029022

Engineering Apps: http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links/Software_Applications/Science_-_Engineering/index.html

You get the idea I hope. So what can't run on Linux?

There are some good points in the article, but the article from issue 154 is out of date. It refers to the proprietary tool, Nessus, which has been surpassed by OpenVAS. OpenVAS does not even get a mention, despite being useful, GPL software.

I can specifically recommend Linux Format. It's got a fun, slightly irreverent tone, but also imparts a hell of a lot of useful stuff in an easily accessible way. The previous issue had a great tutorial on how to use Backtrack to carry out a few simple exploitations in a VM, which was very interesting. They have a great website here.

If you read the article or ones on the same topic from last year, you'll find that the reason she is making the request is that not even the FDA has audited the code. It's just there.

Other embedded hardware has been found to be easily crackable and able to deliver fatal doses of medication. Someone has to audit the code, since the FDA is not doing it, Karen is making an issue of it. In these cases, there is no excuse for the code not being 100% open. People's lives hang in the balance.

Last I knew it was performance. VC++ offers better performance than gcc. I haven't seen anything on the issue recently, but AFAIK it hasn't changed.

http://tuxradar.com/content/benchmarked-firefox-javascript-linux-and-windows-and-its-not-pretty
http://tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wine-beats-linux-firefox
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/22/1854258/firefox-35rc2-performance-in-windows-vs-linux

Last I knew it was performance. VC++ offers better performance than gcc. I haven't seen anything on the issue recently, but AFAIK it hasn't changed.

http://tuxradar.com/content/benchmarked-firefox-javascript-linux-and-windows-and-its-not-pretty
http://tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wine-beats-linux-firefox
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/22/1854258/firefox-35rc2-performance-in-windows-vs-linux

Your complaint here seems to be lack of documentation -- the well-known aversion of open-source programmers to document their work. But I suspect something deeper is at work here -- that the implementers of audio subsystems fail to fully understand the demands that are imposed by audio applications, and so that existing subsystems keep having to be replaced by newer ones with newer incompatible, behaviours.
But I did just now, while writing this, manage to find a web page, that appears to give an overview of what's available, and a good deal of commentary discussing the mess.

-- hendrik

You're right that PowerShell is a real shell and it may be subjective that I prefer bash because of its simplicity and in my opinion better usability, e.g. tabbing/copy-pasting.

Some other non-subjective example points:
performance
documentation - man wins big time regarding technical details
file system - ext3 is not subject to fragmentation
enhance security/permission features - no sudo-equivalent in Windows
lower hardware requirements
get rid of the sick registry
better modularization - Windows has a pretty monolithic setup compared to Linux

You're right that PowerShell is a real shell and it may be subjective that I prefer bash because of its simplicity and in my opinion better usability, e.g. tabbing/copy-pasting.

Some other non-subjective example points:
performance
documentation - man wins big time regarding technical details
file system - ext3 is not subject to fragmentation
enhance security/permission features - no sudo-equivalent in Windows
lower hardware requirements
get rid of the sick registry
better modularization - Windows has a pretty monolithic setup compared to Linux

I agree that OS X is nowhere, outside the desktop. I also agree that iOS will ultimately be a niche platform because of the lockdown, developer hostility, and lack of hardware choice.

However, Linux still has a huge way to go in many significant areas before it can compete with OS X. Sure, OS X may not have had any brand new filesystems recently, but that's because HFS+ pretty much does the job. Meanwhile, Linux has terrible sound support, with a half dozen competing APIs and sound servers. Even when sound works, the UI is generally horrible.

When I try to make a VoIP call and can't because some random tab in my browser happens to have an instance of Flash running, or I'm playing a CD, or my IM client recently went ping, I groan and quit applications and close windows until I can dial out. The average user is more likely to say "This blows", and go back to Windows or OS X.

Of course, ideally I'd use my Bluetooth headset, but those don't work with Linux either.

I thought Mozilla left everything up to the Linux distributions including porting to Linux, and testing it. If that's the case why would they even care about packaging it?

Do we trust Mozilla to build and package it anyway? It has always been full on Windows and half cocked Linux. Remember when Windows versions of Firefox under Wine were kicking the shit out of Linux versions?

http://www.tuxradar.com/content/control-your-bandwidth-trickle

It's done! by google, no less...

It has nothing to do with Ubuntu. Here are benchmarks from Firefox on Fedora: The issue is just as bad on Fedora: http://www.tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wine-beats-linux-firefox. That's only from a few months

I tried the V8 benchmark on my laptop (1.8GHz Centrino dual core, 2 GB memory) with Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 64 bit on Fedoral 11 64 bit and got 150 first and 142 second. Not that good, but then again is this really a problem since getting Firefox 3.5 subjectively my web browsing appears much faster and for the majority of users quicker browsing is more important.

It has nothing to do with Ubuntu. Here are benchmarks from Firefox on Fedora: The issue is just as bad on Fedora: http://www.tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wine-beats-linux-firefox. That's only from a few months

Are you sure you want to go there? I remember seeing how firefox for windows, running in wine, actually runs better than the native linux version Also, firefox is what you could call an exception to the rule. They actually have a business plan and Google to fund them. Which is more than can be said for most "free software"

I don't suppose you feel like responding to the post a couple above yours about Linux Vs Windows performance for Firefox? http://www.tuxradar.com/content/benchmarked-firefox-javascript-linux-and-windows-and-its-not-pretty

I'm looking forward to them resolving the bit where the *nix Firefox builds performed slower than the win32 builds, supposedly due to Profile Guided Optimizations in javascript:

http://www.tuxradar.com/content/benchmarked-firefox-javascript-linux-and-windows-and-its-not-pretty

A bit too well, perhaps. Better than natively, according to some benchmarks. :-/ (via the Linux Haters blog)

Some first impressions on the release, screenshots and an explanation of the delay from Steve McIntyre, the Debian Project Leader, here: http://tuxradar.com/content/lenny-has-landed

Remember these?

I had *no* idea what 'miscellaneous services' icon was until a buddy told me that it was a paper coming out of a folder. Who in the hell drew that thing? Who in the hell thought it was a good idea to put in the operating system?

And WTF is that 'change root password' icon, now that I see it? A hallucinating snake?

Yes, that same O.S. just whooped the two most recent whitebread offerings from Microsoft like Obama whooped the other two white morons in the presidential race. It's clear that what you're trying to say is "speak softly and carry a big dick" or "malt licka is quicka".

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