The article states " Costello also claims that Cuil's Web crawler is three times faster than Google's" and not "three times as many". Google may be crawling as many as 1 trillion pages http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html while the cuil front page says something more like 121 billion.
The speed claim may or may not be true but crawling a trillion times three isn't as plausible unless you get a crawler that likes to crawl a lot of junk.:)
Yes, it's called "go to a page that uses java, and when the little box comes up that asks if you want to install Java, say yes. Wait a few minutes, and then it works". In windows, that's exactly what I did. With linux, well... it hasn't really been that easy.
As far as taking up things with specific vendors when they don't work... that was exactly my point.:)
Anyone tried getting a java applets to work in firefox on a 64-bit AMD linux platform? Or how about sending audio to a TV over an HDMI connection? How about video overlay on an ATI x1250 video card (on a motherboard with the AMD 690 chipset)?
Can you tell it just took me over 1 week at over 8 hours a night of getting my new HTPC set up with linux? And I tought very long and hard between whether to go with linux or windows xp. It has decent new hardware but still performance is horrible mainly due to lack of proper driver support (even though this hardware has been out for more than a year).
Anyway... if you have the ability to patch source code, (re)compile kernel modules, and sort through 100's of pages of forum threads telling you to change one config setting after another, then sure, you can make a really great platform working for free.
But is the average PC user really able or willing to put the necessary time to figure all this out? At the same time, you can't blame manufacturers in not putting the resources to support the relatively small linux userbase. So it's a chicken and the egg problem.
Whether chicken/egg or not, the FACT remains though that overall, installing, maintaining, and using linux is still far more complicated for the average user (who has no clue what a daemon or python script is) than windows.
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The article states " Costello also claims that Cuil's Web crawler is three times faster than Google's" and not "three times as many". Google may be crawling as many as 1 trillion pages http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html while the cuil front page says something more like 121 billion.
The speed claim may or may not be true but crawling a trillion times three isn't as plausible unless you get a crawler that likes to crawl a lot of junk. :)
Anyone tried getting a java applets to work in firefox on a 64-bit AMD linux platform? Or how about sending audio to a TV over an HDMI connection? How about video overlay on an ATI x1250 video card (on a motherboard with the AMD 690 chipset)? Can you tell it just took me over 1 week at over 8 hours a night of getting my new HTPC set up with linux? And I tought very long and hard between whether to go with linux or windows xp. It has decent new hardware but still performance is horrible mainly due to lack of proper driver support (even though this hardware has been out for more than a year). Anyway ... if you have the ability to patch source code, (re)compile kernel modules, and sort through 100's of pages of forum threads telling you to change one config setting after another, then sure, you can make a really great platform working for free.
But is the average PC user really able or willing to put the necessary time to figure all this out? At the same time, you can't blame manufacturers in not putting the resources to support the relatively small linux userbase. So it's a chicken and the egg problem.
Whether chicken/egg or not, the FACT remains though that overall, installing, maintaining, and using linux is still far more complicated for the average user (who has no clue what a daemon or python script is) than windows.