I think the biggest problem is just historical and cultural though. The scientific community has a 30 year history with Unix, is familiar with programming in that environment, and has a lot of legacy code that's written for it. They just aren't going to take to a windows environment easily at all.
I think the biggest problem is just historical and cultural though. The home users community has a 20 year history with windows, is familiar with programming in that environment, and has a lot of legacy code that's written for it. They just aren't going to take to a linux environment easily at all.
Does that mean we're doing all of this for nothing ?
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I think the biggest problem is just historical and cultural though. The scientific community has a 30 year history with Unix, is familiar with programming in that environment, and has a lot of legacy code that's written for it. They just aren't going to take to a windows environment easily at all.
I think the biggest problem is just historical and cultural though. The home users community has a 20 year history with windows, is familiar with programming in that environment, and has a lot of legacy code that's written for it. They just aren't going to take to a linux environment easily at all.
Does that mean we're doing all of this for nothing ?