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Happy Birthday, Linux! An OS At 24
prisoninmate writes: It has been 24 long years since the first ever release of the Linux project on August 25, 1991, which is the core component of any GNU/Linux distribution. With this occasion we want to remind everyone that Linux is everywhere, even if you don't see it. You use Linux when you search on Google, when you use your phone, when buy metro tickets, actually the whole Internet is powered by Linux. Happy Birthday, Linux!
And I really hope Linux will last at least another 24 years (2039: they'll have to fix that 32 bit time since the Epoch, though).
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
People don't give a damn about underlying quality. They want a tool that does the job. Linux, for whatever reason, picked up critical mass to get enough developers so that it does the job.
That's life, I guess.
Curious as to why you would run Xubuntu at home if you hate Linux so much.
heh .. Such problems with Linux.. Funny how theres a bunch of us out there that have been using it since FOREVER (Slackware/1995 here..) and have ZERO problems with it... If this AC is *actually* having these kinda problems, either he's got seriously crap hardware or more likely he's just trolling... And with what a spyware-fest Windows 10 is, I suspect a LOT more people are gonna say "FUCK MS" and come over to the Linux side...
THANK YOU, Edward Snowden!! Americans owe you a debt of gratitude (whether they know it or not..)
Fucking stupid how this asshole sits on his ass when an article is so blatantly wrong when it claims "the whole Internet is powered by Linux."
You better believe I have an ax to grind.
I work with Linux every day, professionally. As soon as the system gets under 100% CPU or memory pressure it crashes. In Solaris (or any Illumos derivative), for that I have mdb, and I can debug a crashed kernel (and make it run again) with kdb. In Linux, that is science fiction.
At home I have Xubuntu. The piece of crap is so slow and bloated, it's become just like Windows. It started out relatively usable, and the more updates were applied, the slower it got. Many of the updates regularly had failure issues during boot. If I were not forced to (company policy) by idiots, I would never run Linux in production. What. A. Piece. Of. Crap.!
Virtualization technology in Linux? Crap.
GNU userland? Does not correspond to any industry norm or standard - crap (recursive grep(1), or TApe ARchiver, tar(1) which supports compression, anyone?) - crap.
Backward compatibility in Linux? Crap.
Post mortem debugging? Crap.
System startup, with million different solutions? Crap.
Crap, crap, crap! But hey, it's all the rage!!! Yes, you better believe I have an Ax to grind. And not just one ax!
That's epic. Curious, which distributions are you trying to deploy in your (claimed) professional usage?
The only time I have experienced random crashes, and lockups are with bleeding edge distros (Mainly *buntu/Mint, for some reason Mint always dead-locks for me regardless of the machine it's put on)
Meanwhile, If you are indeed using Linux professionally, then you need a professional/enterprise distro. Such as SUSE Enterprise Server or Redhat Enterprise server.
I've deployed these in VERY demanding environments before and they have almost always stood the test of time. Heck in one instance the CPU cooked before the OS gave up (Cooling system failed).
Now, if you're using xuBuntu, this is okay for general home use. But I wouldn't consider it for judging the stability of GNU/Linux at all.
CentOS/RHEL with XFCE would give you a good idea on stability however. Ever thought maybe you're using the wrong distro for the task at hand?
I tend to use which distro suites the task I need, for my workstation it's CentOS7 with XFCE, for servers it's usually RHEL6/7, for my personal laptop it's Arch Linux..
So tell me, what are you running that could possibly be so broken? Have you considered it could also be poor configuration?