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Leo Laporte On UNIX As the Future
TractorJector writes "In a well-written interview with Mad Penguin, techmeister Leo Laporte (formerly of G4/TechTV fame) discusses his vision of the future of proprietary and open platforms: 'I think there's a lot of hope for Linux, although I don't think that Linux is the answer. I think that UNIX is the answer, in some form or fashion. It might be BSD, it might be Linux, it might be some third thing. But UNIX is such a well understood and smart to handle the issues that an operating system has to handle that it ultimately will prevail.'"
um os x?
"In a well-written interview with Mad Penguin..."
;-)
"'But UNIX is such a well understood and smart to handle the issues that an operating system has to handle that it ultimately will prevail.'"
Yep, seems pretty well-written to me
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
the future is the HURD. Even in the future, the future will still be the HURD.
I wonder why MS is working on a new command line at all. Do people buy Xserves so that they can use the OS X command line? Do people run linux because they love staring at those grey characters on a black screen? No one really likes the command line... plenty of people get by with it, but it's obviously the most primitive computer interface. So why is Microsoft developing it? Do they really believe that *NIX users like their OS because of the command line?
"Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell bad."
--- Rob Pike
...is that back in the day when really only technically savvy types owned or operated computers, is when MS gained their stranglehold on the market.
We would like to think MS somehow bamboozeled the teeming masses, but that is BS. It was us they bamboozled with MS-DOS of all things.
We did this to ourselves.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
Isn't there going to be some sort of Unix failure in like 2038? How can it be the future if that's true?
I'm still waiting on flying cars.
Of course Linux isn't ready for the desktop! But what they don't tell you is that Windows isn't either!
C'mon, Spyware, Adware, Numerous Bugs(My Soundcard driver crashed the other Day. My Microsoft Certified Driver completely crashed. A reboot and it worked, but that's unacceptable as it never has any trouble in *Nix). Crazy Service Packs, bad to no real support.
Hell, you NEED an Anti-Virus just to browse the net and check your email, even if you don't download and open any attachments. Just to protect you from the wild internet. You have to combine XP + Norton + Ad-Aware/Spybot S&D just to get a near usable PC. That's quite a stone's throw away from a desktop.
The problem with it, is Windows IS used as the desktop, even though it isn't ready for it yet. That means it is the standard, however, how often has your mother had to call you over to fix it? Linux wouldn't require the same thing, especially if all they want is browsing and email. They're quite matched at that point. But no, Linux isn't ready. Neither is Windows.
(I can't speak of OSX, I don't actively use it)
Some things never change, eh?