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The Role of the Operating System In the Future
liteswap writes "Linux geeks love Linux and Windows mavens won't quit Microsoft -- but will we really care that much whether a machine is running Linux or Windows in future?
As Sun announces Solaris support for Red Hat Linux applications, the need to specify the OS for a particular application will fade away, and the application and the x86 platform become the critical things -- at least that's what this Techworld feature argues..." Maybe a long time from now this will happen - but I don't see it happening RSN.
Stanley Kubrick knew....
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Dave: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL?
HAL: I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave: Where the hell'd you get that idea, HAL?
HAL: Dave, although you took thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
As far as support goes, I guess that you haven't had to call Micro$oft regarding an installation issue
Nope, never have. Worked jobs that have required me to support/install/use the stuff from 95-2003. I've had to seek support for Linux installations 100:1 times more often than I've had to on Windows installations
-everphilski-
Damn you mods. The parent is FUNNY! I'm right now giggling at the "future" suggested by the parent, a ludicrously self-embedded morphology that never arrives because it keeps moving . . . into the future. Get a sense of humor. Oh, I forgot: mods generally only "get" jokes when a laugh track is playing (i.e. "All your base," "In Soviet Russia," "Natalie Portman with HOT GRITS," etc.)
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