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Linux 3.5 Released
diegocg writes "Linux 3.5 has been released. New features include support for metadata checksums in Ext4, userspace probes for performance profiling with systemtap/perf, a simple sandboxing mechanism that can filter syscalls, a new network queue management algorithm designed to fight bufferbloat, support for checkpointing and restoring TCP connections, support for TCP Early Retransmit (RFC 5827), support for android-style opportunistic suspend, btrfs I/O failure statistics, and SCSI over Firewire and USB. Here's the full changelog."
The "microsoft tax" nonsense sounds less and less convincing with each point of market share that apple picks up in the desktop market. The reality is and was that linux on the desktop has always sucked. Pick your distribution, I don't care. It has always provided a crap user experiene and this is why it failed. The office suites available sucked. The graphics tools available sucked compared to photoshop. Interoperability between apps was a huge problem. Upgrades were a huge problem.
So, sure, scurry off to lame "microsoft tax" rationalizations, but the reality is that linux on the desktop would cost employers more money than it would save even without 'network effects.' It sucked because linux fanboys are of the delusion that usability design menas glossy icons and is something that programmers can do in their off time. Linux on the desktop, despite being free, has failed because it sucked.