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Bill Joy on Linux and Mac OS X
(rfm)2 writes "In a Wired interview, Bill Joy mentions he just got a new dual 2GHz G5 Power Mac with 8 GB RAM and half a terabyte of internal disk. He is clearly underwhelmed by Linux: 'Re-implementing what I designed in 1979 is not interesting to me personally. For kids who are 20 years younger than me, Linux is a great way to cut your teeth. It's a cultural phenomenon and a business phenomenon. Mac OS X is a rock-solid system that's beautifully designed. I much prefer it to Linux.'"
He has a very "proprietary" attitude... but what can we expect from a man who has made his money selling software licenses to people over the years.
In linux libertas
I think Linux has the foundation to be the ultimate OS if there is an easy setup and configuration, along with the power to drop to the command line and change anything.
The good thing about Linux is that even if the ultimate in consistent, well designed, simple, easy to use attractive interfaces were available in it, it'd be possible to still drop to a shell and do real work. I often see comments to people about a good controlled UI "dumbing down" linux. But that UI on top of everything else available doesn't change what's underneath, it ADDS to it.
Far better than the OSX solution IMHO, where the machine cannot be used without the GUI
Linux is a kernel. It doesn't have a UI. Maybe you're thinking of X-Windows, or KDE, or GNOME. None of those are linux-specific, however.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Linux doesn't _need_ to do anything, fool.
Anything worth doing is worth doing badly -- G.K. Chesterton
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*BSD is dying.
You're right.
Consistently crap.
Still, at the rate at which OSX is adopting Windows' UI conventions and disfunctions, you won't be able to tell the difference in 2 years time anyway...
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