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Should The Next Windows Be Built On Linux?
scrm writes "The next version of Windows should be built on top of Linux, according to this article by Robert Cringely of PBS." If Microsoft wanted to, they could be the world's largest vendor of Free software .. couldn't they?
this is about as plausible as Fred Phelps marching for gay rights.
Well generally when you're installing new hardware you'll be rebooting your PC anyways (and items like USB or Firewire devices don't require a reboot). However the software comment does concur with my pet peeve: Moronic installation teams that always click the "require a restart" button on the installation package despite there being absolutely no reason. There are times when it's replacing some particular system component and absolutely requires it, but that is absolutely a rarity, and instead it's just a installation team that puts the ease of their jobs ahead of the ease of the public.
well, for one thing, about 80% of slashdot's traffic is sent out to internet explorer, so even if i'm not alone in 'hating' linux, I might as well be when I come reading slashdot with it. For another thing, I don't hate linux. I love linux! What I hate are the horrible little linux zealots. People who take a core kernel developed by a team of professionals, a few 'killer apps' (like apache, mysql and samba, developed largely with 3rd party commercial backing) a load of shit products (like xfree86 and everything that sits on top of it) and then proceed to parch themselves on a mountain high and preach their own superiority to the masses below (who are getting along wonderfully with their industry-standard, fully supported systems) all the while boasting how much better they have it, before going back to re-compile ide-scsi emulators into their kernels and re-configuring their bootloaders to ignore /dev/hdc, just to use a simple fucking atapi-cd writer.
I like to compare linux zealots with goths. they're both groups of people who have made a concious decision to 'non-conform' - even when their choices offer them no real advantage in life, and indeed often only prooves to make things harder for themselves. But what they don't realise is, when they think they're raging against the machine and fucking the man, they're doing nothing more than conforming wholey to just a different group.
I'd actually like to see linux hit the main stream, just for the simple pleasure of watching all these fuckwits realise that they're no longer plucky underdogs or pioneers. then they'll all jump ship to the next small thing and start slating everyone else for using linux.
yeah, or maybe you could just run KDE or GNOME or Konqueror or Mozilla or any of the other thousands of apps that crash regularly.. Those sure do a good job of making Linux look like shit to any desktop user who's used to Windows 2000/XP. Especially the Kicker or whatever panel app might be running. I think it's a joke that my frigging panel app can crash (and frequently has, BTW) whereas under Win2K I haven't seen ANYthing crash in over 8 months of daily usage. Curious dichotomy, that..
just like the humble blood clot... turboporsche@telus.net
I can download some GNU utilities and copy them to C:\WINNT, now is my OS based on GNU?
According to RMS it is.