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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."'"
he obviously isn't a unix user. Just because it doesn't copy windows doesn't mean its "crap".
You mean for once I am not a loser? I never thought I'd see the day when running Windows was... cool.
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> > Torvalds, via e-mail, says De Raadt is "difficult" and declined to comment further.
> I must say, Linus really comes across as a classy, quality person. It takes mature restraint to deal with "difficult" people like Theo, and Linus does so with class.
He knows he can count on us to fill in the details.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
And that's about as much sense as this conversation makes.
Luck favors the prepared, darling.
The article was awful for being kind of sloppy, but De Raadt was feeding it. It's an article composed of generalizations about caricatures of steriotypes, which is something like sloppy*10^3.
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/., but silly flames in Forbes is pathetic.
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"Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. We do what we do because we love Unix"
Could have just as easily been . .
"Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. We do what we do because we hate Linux"
"BSD guys are a lot like Linux guys, except they have kissed girls."
Would have been as meaningful had it been . .
"BSD guys are a lot like Linux guys, except they have kissed each other."
I mean, no, linux isn't perfect, but that's not news. It's also not news that some people in the BSD community flame people in the Linux community, and vice versa, and they're usually silly flames. I don't mind silly flames so much on
I bet they just do what they do because they hate Slashdot.
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I agree, but... this is Forbes magazine - it's like the equivalent of "Marie Claire" for executives, except without the fun quizzes telling you what technique to try in bed next month.
does this belong here?
...was who is this clown on Forbes bashing Linux? Then I saw it was an OpenBSD thing... and went, oh, nothing new there.
Then I felt dumb when I realized it was *the* OpenBSD guy. But I still didn't feel so bad.
The best part of the article was the mention of "In a sort of hacker equivalent of the Ford-versus-Chevy rivalry..." which is exactly what it boils down to.
So to add to the petty bickering, I've decided I like Linux more only because I've had more exposure to it, and I like the mascot more. Of course, here I was thinking it was the little Devil thing, but I guess thats just my confusion of the BSDs, eh?
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Exactly why I never RTFA. I'll read the posts and maybe even post a few times. If the posts spark my interest and I think the article may be worth my add views then I'll read it.
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"You know what I found? Right in the kernel, in the heart of the operating system, I found a developer's comment that said, 'Does this belong here?' "Lok says. "What kind of confidence does that inspire? Right then I knew it was time to switch."
Damn. Somebody remove that comment.
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If this were a windows fanboy thread, you'd have 20 dozen MCSE bootcamp graduates screaming that you should spend the next 6 months using regmon to figure out which keys are for the app, which aren't. You're also supposed to sacrifice a chicken or something during the folly.
Give me txt file configs any day of the week.
Its times like this that you have to link to penny arcade
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"BSD guys are a lot like Linux guys, except they have kissed girls."
The only reason the girls let the *BSD guys kiss them is that they felt sorry for them- apparently the *BSD guys are dying.
Netcraft confirms it.
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Time to switch again...
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Yeah, but what would Brian Boitano do?
I'd love to see more convictions among politicians. Tom DeLay, for example; he should definitely get convicted of something.
This article has really made me see the light. It is full of unwaivering logic and factual critique of the Linux OS. I am now switching to OpenBSD. In fact, I will now be switching the entire Datacenter to run OpenBSD, and find a picture of De Rat to use as my desktop background.
Thank you Forbes magazine, once again you proved to mold and shape the direction of my life.
1) Your analysis is based on bad assumptions so your result is way off. 2) You're a sick bastard for fucking a horse.
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"Does this belong here?" is in OpenBSD too.
It would be a real scream if the comment that prompted the PHB to swtich from Linux to BSD was cloned from BSD to Linux. B-)
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I was having a hard time deciding between *BSD and *nix, but kissing girls sounds like so much fun I'm gonna have to choose *BSD.
Its times like this that you have to link to penny arcade
Heh. Man, one of these days, I'm gonna add penny arcade to my list of regular webcomics. Aw, who am I kidding?
The way I like to say it is: "BSD: It's like Linux, but for grown-ups!"
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