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What's Wrong with Unix?
aaron240 asks: "When Google published the GLAT (Google Labs Aptitude Test) the Unix question was intriguing. They asked an open-ended question about what is wrong with Unix and how you might fix it. Rob Pike touched on the question in his Slashdot interview from October. What insightful answers did the rest of Slashdot give when they applied to work at Google? To repeat the actual question, 'What's broken with Unix? How would you fix it?'"
'nuff said
-- "If A equals success, then the formula is A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Einstein
Oh cool! This guy said what he's supposed to say: I think I should immediately assume that he's really cool. Mod him up everyone!
Mod down, damn it.
Where does this crap come from? Appple marketing?
Open standards are being embraced just about everywhere you turn in OS X
Like DRM in Ipod?
Like quicktime codecs?
The numbers of Macs involved in secure and classified work in the Federal government have been exploding
Exploding computers?
Based upon my experience with OS/X, I would have to say that most of the things that *NIX did poorly have been rectified with Windows. I would have said Windows was still lacking true 64bitness, but that is coming in Longhorn rather quickly now. The numbers of Windows systems involved in secure and classified work in the Federal government have been exploding and high bandwidth networking options for cluster computing have also been resolved with options such as Windows High Performance Computing. Development issues have been streamlined with rather nice tools from Windows such as .NET. Open standards are being embraced just about everywhere you turn in Windows, a true plug and play environment now exists (I am reminded of the last video card install on my Mac which had me down for two days solid), the GUI is consistent and the CLI is present and fully integrated with the GUI as well. Additionally, more and more networking options are being supported natively within Windows which is one of the last hurdles to true interconnectivity cross platform. And the new Dells! Oh, the new Delss are a wonderful bist of hardware with which to run Solataire on.
Problems that remain are being able to create one seamless environment with shared memory and such, but the *NIX world is still having those problems as well.
You can argue about the specifics and details of many things, but in terms of a workstation, Windows pretty much has it all for our needs.
Uh, right. Just two things 1) That page doesn't even mention UNIX 2) e2 is probably the least reliable source of information in the world, third only to "Lying Colins World Of Lies" and Slashdot.
The last time i checked GTK+ was totally free and under GNU (L)GPL check it out at gtk.org its way better than stupid Qt/KDE.
this is why i hate Qt... now please stop talking bs and use GTK+ 2.6.x. its the best widget set i have ever used.
It does not have nothing wrong. The error is in who use it.
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