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CNet Article On 2.4 Kernel
jho writes "This C|Net article talks about how the Linux 2.4 kernel, armed with Firewire, PnP and USB support, will be better equiped to tackle the desktop market. It's a intresting read as far as how Linux is being pushed to the mainstream. Have a look. "
Well, you can tell linux is going mainstream when the press starts commenting on the latest linux vaporware. 2.4 isn't out yet. It doesn't have all the features listed in the article in the kernel source. Reminds me of how the press treats a certain Redmond-based company - "w2k will have xyzzy feature - blowing away the competition!".
Okay, mark me down now - I've spoken blasphemy against the holy os...
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Man walked on the moon in 1969, the year before the dawn of the Unix epoch. Must we discard the aging space travel technologies pioneered during and prior to those days and start anew?
The first block-structured language, ALGOL, is now about 40 years old. That software technology is still alive in the latest languages -- Java can trace its roots directly back to ALGOL.
Firearms are now about 500 years old -- and still rule the world in a very literal sense. Further, all the modern pistols I've seen are mere refinements and variations on a 90+ year old design.
It is not the arbitrary incident of when a technology is originally developed that determines its importance now and in the future. The solid stuff lasts and is refined and improved. Like it or not, the works of Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie were so fundamentally sound that new variations of Unix are just hitting their stride now, three decades later.
That kind of quality is something that fans of Bill Gates' young empire, now pushing its third OS family, can only dream about.
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Other old computing technologies -
- Windowing GUIs
- Mouse
- Ethernet(!)
- Object oriented programming
- C programming language
And speaking of old computing technology, have you checked to see what's running under Win98 lately?General technologies older than 30 years -
- Telephone
- Internal combustion engine
- Jet aircraft
- Light bulb
- Electricity
- Radio and television
- Indoor plumbing
Can I assume you don't lower yourself to using these old, outmoded technologies either?