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Linus on SCO, and the Desktop Being 10 Years Away
An anonymous reader writes "In this interview from last week's Linux.conf.au in Australia, Linus Torvalds talks about how the SCO lawsuit 'riled' him and led him to spend a week writing an application to archive his email, and how he think Linux will take 5 to 10 years to become mainstream on the desktop."
Linux Desktop right now is a mess. Seriously, KDE, Gnome etc you name it, none are stable enough to use as a everyday desktop. He got this one right.
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Speak English or die. Do your job, editors.
Social change all ya want, Until I can run EVERY tool I run today, Linux is going nowhere here.
Dont give me sourceforge fud, its 90% shite.
The quality of software on linux with a few exceptions and theyre very very few, is apawlingly embarasingly laughable.
If it cant do what I can do today or better, its out.
Stop playing catchup grandma.
Linux is just a reverse engineered Unix.
Now, THAT is an ubertroll. I commend you. Now please mod the parent down!.
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
Taking over the World - Rule #0
Don't try to take over the world!
Why do you want to take over the world? It never fails to amaze me, that in order for me to have the "freedom" that you feel I need, I have to do what you say (run your choice of OS).
Well, sorry mate, but go and fuck yourself. You can pry my copy of Windows from my cold, dead hands. I'll use what I want. That's my idea of freedom.
"lmost everyone I know agrees that overall OS X is a better..."
Wakeup call. Everyone you know are mac fanatics just like you. The rest of the world doesn't like 1 mouse buttons, no task bar, mouse-required task switching, the list goes on and on and on...
Apple doesn't even have a place to type in the WEP key for wireless connections in its WIRELESS control pannel for a given connection. Insted you have to drop down some silly icon that isn't labeled in the upper right hand corner of the desktop. Its just ridiculous.
I can list crap like this all day long. The desktop is a joke. It looks pretty, and its simple to use for about 20% of what you might want to use it for. The rest is just a buncha crap. period.
Two infinite things: your stupidity and mine. But I'm not sure about the latter. If my sig offends you, I'm sorry.
If only this were IRC, I could whois you and get "PhrostyMcByte "I love Microsoft. Linux sucks!!"
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Linux will never take over the desktop in 5 to 10 years. Syllable will instead.
Netcraft has a bug that doesn't allow them to read uptime on Linux servers that have been up for over 497 days.
YOU SUCK BALLS!