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The Myth of the Isolated Kernel Hacker
Ant writes "The Linux Foundation's report (PDF) on who writes Linux — "... Linux isn't written by lonely nerds hiding out in their parents' basements. It's written by people working for major companies — many of them businesses that you probably don't associate with Linux.
To be exact, while 18.2% of Linux is written by people who aren't working for a company, and 7.6% is created by programmers who don't give a company affiliation, everything else is written by someone who's getting paid to create Linux. From top to bottom, of the companies that have contributed more than 1% of the current Linux kernel, the list looks like this: ..."
(Dang character limits! Last word is supposed to be "substandard")
I just got a mail from my boss that I should use MS Project for managing my project.
The current project I am leading includes two teams, one team uses exclusively Linux, and the other team uses exclusively Windows except for me who is on Linux. So I decided to use Planner as my Project Management tool and export the progress reports to HTML for everyone to use easily. I am the only one in the group needing to use a management tool in any case.
Now I need to re-do my planning in MS Project. The easy part will be getting MS Project to run.
I don't even know if MS Project can export to HTML so that the others in the teams DON'T need to install it. At least they can run Planner since it can import MS Project XML files.
I must say I am frustrated that Planner cannot export to MS Project format - maybe there is someone around who knows of an add on or build that does exactly that?
Sigh.
Okay I'll end my hissyfit now and enjoy my short two-day holiday before installing MS-Project on Monday. What a downer.
Seven Days with Ubuntu Unity
Forget it. You won't get funny-score for quoting everybody's darling xkcd.
Oh, he has prostate cancer. We should all feel sorry for him. Boo fucking hoo! Fuck him and the weak-ass god of Islam that he serves. Fuck the judge who decided that the law should be sympathetic to criminals but not to victims. If the law isn't a blind instrument of justice, then what the fuck is the point? It just becomes arbitrary bullshit.
Linux just isn't ready for the desktop yet.
Translation: I haven't tried it.
the average computer user isn't going to spend months learning how to use a CLI and then hours compiling packages so that they can get a workable graphic interface to check their mail with
I've always thought Ubuntu has very extensive driver support, as do many other distros. Who needs the CLI when there are multiple desktop environments to choose from? How many does Windows have? Oh, right, one...
I'm not the only one who thinks they are user-friendly... Already many big-name vendor laptops are coming out with some form of Linux pre-loaded. Take a look at the HP laptops that are now being offered with Mobile Internet O/S... from the page: " Mobile Internet is a user-friendly, all-inclusive interface built on Linux."
especially not when they already have a Windows machine that does its job perfectly well
haha, good one!
and is backed by a major corporation as opposed to Linux which is only supported by a few unemployed nerds living in their mother's basement somewhere.
Red Hat is a major corporation. It's publicly traded on the NYSE (ticker: RHAT) and doing rather well. You should consider investing. You should also know that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a fully supported release which offers several high availability service contracts... which is why a lot of US Government systems are now running RHEL. Not to mention it's faster, less expensive, and more secure.
The last thing I want is a level 5 dwarf (haha) providing me my OS.
I don't blame you, I'd want at least a level 12 mage!
Capitalism: When it uses the carrot, it's called democracy. When it uses the stick, it's called fascism.
YHBT. HAND.
If I'd had mod points, I'd have modded you up. Very informative.