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Is Linux At the End of Its Life Cycle?
Glyn Moody writes "That's what Nikolai Pryanishnikov, president of Microsoft Russia, seems to think. Quoted in the context of continuing questions about Russia's plans to create its own national operating system based on GNU/Linux, Pryanishnikov said [via Google Translate]: 'We must bear in mind that Linux is not a Russian OS and, moreover, is at the end of its life cycle.' An off-the-cuff comment, or something more?"
This is just evidence that he doesnt know what he is talking about. Nerds certainly dont fuck up kilobytes vs megabytes.. not even casually.
"His name was James Damore."
OH, yeah.. and Unix hasn't had it's share of insecurities. Telnet is still included in virtually every distro, for example. Just because stuff is included for legacy support doesn't mean anything. NFS was highly insecure until just recently, for example.
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Indeed.. even though Linus disagrees.
RMS's goal was and still is an OS completely under his GNU umbrella. I hurd that he has something under development.
"His name was James Damore."
A-men! I mean, sheesh, I recently had to end a relationship with a Russian woman over the issue . . . she thinks ethanol is WATER - whew!
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A lot of the APIs are the same. Win32 was present in both Windows 95 and Windows NT as well. Sure, the kernel is different, but there are lays and layers of DLLs and other software that were identical on both.
So that would mean that WINE is full of Windows code ?
So in other words you are going for the classic "it works for me" and throwing in a "you must be a shill" for daring to point out that Linux don't work on proprietary hardware? Tell you what Herman, answer me these questions with NO CHEATING by looking things up online: which of the top 5 AIO printers in Walmart work in Linux? which of the top 5 laptops being sold there have 100% working drivers and will continue working with NO CLI after you run the 6 month upgrade? How about Best Buy? Staples? Office Depot?
The simple fact is YOU CAN'T answer those questions without researching your living ass off, and even then you'll be playing "hardware roulette" because I have seen the SAME make and model Dell with DIFFERENT wireless and networking chips. And THAT is the problem. there is simply no easy way to find these things out short of buying and crossing your fingers. The average Joe will NOT shop online, and even then it is just as big a crapshoot. Ever use a Dell ubuntu laptop? Notice anything...funny...about them? Like how all the Canonical repos are turned OFF? Do you know why that is, because I do. it is because if you use Canonical repos on an OEM box supported by Canonical it breaks the wireless and sound!
So tell me again how I'm a misinformed shill. Tell me that Dell, one of the biggest OEMs on the planet, must not "get it" and how even the lousy driver support for such a limited subset of hardware must be someone else's fault. You know what they say about excuses, right? I actually want Linux to succeed but in the current shape it is a clusterfuck for Sally average unless she has a CS degree or likes the hell out of DIY. With all the proprietary shit in the average mobile today it is really a total crapshoot whether the device will work when you buy it, and whether it will continue working after the mandatory 6 month Ubuntu upgrade. Don't blame the messenger because I didn't write the thing. But while you are telling me I'm a misinformed shill be sure to call up Dell and tell them they're doing it wrong as well.
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