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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.'"
Why should we take seriously anything that Leo Laporte has to say? He's not involved in the OS community; he's just a TV and radio personality. What, exactly, qualifies him as a pundit on such issues?
...is command lines, meaningless three letter acronyms and pipe scripts with hundreds of flags and switches. well i for one am jumping straight into this revolution. i just smashed my mouse with a hammer and am going to track down a CGA monitor on ebay.
If you don't risk failure you don't risk success.
Very interesting, very insightful comments...unfortunately we've been hearing the exact same thing for the past 20 years. You're basically regurgitating what the pundits and "experts" have been saying forever. We've yet to see any of these things....
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That's my thoughts anyway. Sometime in the near future, I'll get them blogged down in detail.
No, these are not your thoughts. These are the ideas from about a 1000 different people over the years that have been saying the same things. It's bad when you have to take the work or ideas from others and switch them around to try to make them your own.
You offer nothing new here...move along.
"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
But, doesn't it worry any of you that Microsoft is currently doing their absolute best to squash out every other OS on the planet?!?
Microsoft is doing their best to create the best product possible. If that means "squash out every other OS on the planet", than no, it doesn't worry me.
Free of Flash! Free of Flash!
Barring the trolls I'm probably going to get from this, I 'd like to say that Choice is a Good Thing
... I'd really doubt you would use Apple's OS to control anyhting else but a mac .. because we all know that macs are really just sitting in every server room through out this world.
... as much as I like using textpad. tools like eclipse even netbeans are just so much more efficent (if even just for the library look ups) that there is no reason NOT to use a gui.
Mac OSX is a very slow OS.. because of it's true monolithic approach it's no where near as fast as windows will be.
As for power users/admins/developers
For developers
regardless there are benefits of the command line and yuor examples really suck and you need to learn how to use windows properly.