Linux For Losers According To De Raadt

elohim writes "Theo has some scathing comments about Linux in his new interview with Forbes Magazine. From the article: 'It's terrible...Everyone is using it, and they don't realize how bad it is. And the Linux people will just stick with it and add to it rather than stepping back and saying, "This is garbage and we should fix it."'"

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I noticed

[m50d]

With the CD writing thing. I realise that has worked out well for most people, but for me and anyone else with a Cyberdrive CW058D it hasn't. It's a real pain. I also noticed with the whole reiser4 issue. Linux was always a kludge to get things running for a bit until hurd came out. Now that's starting to bite, as kludge is piled on kludge to get things running. Linus being dictatorial really doesn't help, because the rare times when he's boneheaded are far more harmful than the many times he's being sensible are helpful. If it's the right thing, almost everyone can see it's the right thing.

Re:"Scathing" != "Untrue"

[kabbor]

where would linux be if SCO had managed to come up with solid evidence?,

One thing to remember: The main reason why SCO will continue to fail is the results of that court case, which stripped novel of practically all copyright in UNIX source code.

It really is a pitty that legal action scared people away from *BSD, which left linux spending 10 years reinventing the wheel. Could you imagine where we'd be if all that brain work had been done on top of ancient UNIX? Wow and goosebumps time, for me.

Microsoft probably wouldn't exist any more.

Re:"Scathing" != "Untrue"

[ArsonSmith]

So Linux wants to do everything well and be used everywhere.

BSD wants to do one thing perfect and be used everywhere?

Re:The prom

[LittleLebowskiUrbanA]

Wrong, wrong, wrong. He doesn't want to fill any niche except the secure, Open Source, stable OS niche which he has filled. Trying to fill the gnu/linux niche? Do you know ANYTHING about what you're talking about? Christ, take a look at OpenBSD before you comment. Take a look at the project goal. Install it. Read a man page. Try out Package Filter (PF). OpenBSD *just* works. OpenBSD talks the talk and walks the walk--see the results the small OpenBSD group produced over wireless documentation.
I run both OpenBSD and Linux, and they both have their places in my network but Linux seems so haphazard and hacked together after using OpenBSD it's not funny. With OpenBSD, there clear and concise man pages that are human-readable. The install guide on the OpenBSD.org is written so that anyone can install and configure OpenBSD without any help at all.
Theo is a bit outspoken but he's never lied. He's not jealous of Linux, he's just so idealistic he doens't understand why people run something so hacked together and why people put up with a lack of clean code and central planning.