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Old School Linux Remembered, Parts 0.02 & 0.03
eldavojohn writes "Following our last history lesson of Linux 0.01, the Kernel Trap is talking about the following announcements that would lead to one of the greatest operating systems today. A great Linus quote on release 0.02 (just 19 days after 0.01): 'I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got minix. This is a program for hackers by a hacker. I've enjoyed [sic] doing it, and somebody might enjoy looking at it and even modifying it for their own needs. It is still small enough to understand, use and modify, and I'm looking forward to any comments you might have.'"
Not even close!
Linux is filled with problems, and lags behind all of the other operating systems -even the kernel from Vista has better interface stability and more features (it's just the rest that sucks) than Linux.
With Solaris, BSD, Vista, OSX -hell, even OS/2 you know that tomorrow they won't do some wonky bullshit thing (like rip out the scheduler for no reason) and the version numbers have some sort of coherent scheme.
Not to mention the fact that Linux has become less stable with each release for the last five years (since 2.4 was released).
It's time to face the facts, kids; Linux is an ameteur OS thrust into the professional realm which it is ill-equipped to handle. Google uses it you say? How much time does google spend nursing it along? (a considerable amount, I"m sure; particularly compared to how little manpower they'd have to invest in maintence if they switched to Solaris or Windows Server).
But, that said, Linux is indeed the greatest operating system today --for me to poop on!