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Happy 15th Birthday Linux
An anonymous reader writes "It's 15 years already! On August 25th, 1991 Linus Torvalds submitted the famous message to comp.os.minix: 'Hello everybody out there using minix — I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing
since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on
things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
(same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
among other things)' Happy Birthday Linux!"
Wow, 15 years is also Torvalds mental maturity age!
"Oh boy"
Damn. 14 years and it's still barely usable.
I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet -Stanislaw Lem
:sigh: oh well, keep it up. Over here on XP I've had no crashes in 5 years and support for all the software and hardware I actually want to use. Whereas linux... well, it wouldn't even load X at any resolution, which makes it pretty comprehensively unusable as far as I'm concerned.
Now now. . . it has drivers. For almost everything. Well, ok. . . not everything. Some things. Ok a few things. And you need to know quite a lot of commands to get them working. And you may need to recompile the kernel to get them working. You also need to add a few things out of the box to get functionality with, oh. . . DVD's and that sort thing. Now sure, you windows users can just double click your drivers and install them instantly, or do so right over the internet with simplicity, but . . . well. . . we linux users are advanced and stuff. I saw a comment earlier about Windows XP being DRM laden, etc. But to backup DVD's on Linux (I'm referring to most distros) you still have to download deCSS or something based on that. Just as easily as you can with Windows and any type of DRM they have. Only on Windows, I can play my games (bootlegged or not) with full hardware support. I can also print without taking an hour or more to install my printer. Sometimes it's a matter of using the computer, not beating the hell out of the keyboard to get what I want so I can call myself "forward thinking" and "open." You couldn't pry my Linux box from my cold dead hands. I love tinkering with it. But the elitist mentality of most Linux users pisses me off. My Windows box rarely crashes. I'm sick of that argument. And as far as security - - - if Linux were the most common desktop OS on the planet, do you REALLY think it would be "more" secure? Security through obscurity is hardly acceptable.