We had something like this with the bureau of public health back around the WWI days. Why do you think it would unconstitutional today where government's role is seen as even larger?
Well bad fonts is a different problem. There has been progress there for example in 2003 the introduction of the vera fonts. But fonts is definitely still an area where Linux lags
" People use Linux because they want a UNIX like system on their desktop or laptop! The other reason people use Linux is because it free software!" Both of which are not sudden interests most likely so why then, wouldn't people be willing to buy hardware that worked.
"most people are not going to buy new hardware to get an OS working" sounds more like Linux was a lark.
The software as written by you would fit only well with your business processes. For your competitors to use it they would need to customize it. That's how you start getting improvements for free.
Double digit percentage of the home market is very high. Apple has just recently broken back into it with many advantages that Linux doesn't have. And if Linux is going to make a play it would be at the very low end (one laptop per child) where Windows costs make a difference.
You are asking for a lot. Getting from 1-10% is harder than getting from 10%-35%.
Mac has $PWD. If you mean opening files "open XYZ" would work. Besides what does current working directory do for you in an office app? I don't understand what you mean.
VMS (from which it was copied) had a solution where the administrator could grant himself permissions to do things but it left log behind. I believe NT had this as well, if I'm not incorrect.
SELinux is a good solution for root is god. If what you are looking for is privacy, encrypted virtual file systems work better. Remember if a guy has root he also have a screw driver.
Do you trust software vendors not to completely hose your system especially if you try and install software more than a year or two old? Static link please.
I'd much rather the vendors who are willing to that join LSB and get it moving faster.:-)
Windows has excellent hardware support, particularly for hardware that doesn't follow spec and has bad drivers. Far far better than any other OS on the market. If this is a primary criteria you shouldn't be using Linux.
The thing that's better about Linux with hardware is if your hardware is having problems the ability to interact at a low level with the hardware is a lifesaver.
Which creates a whole extra layer since drivers need to be virtual. x86 hardware doesn't support a kernel monitoring real hardware. This is why Vista had driver compatibility issues.
All you are doing is having Microsoft write the real driver and having hardware manufacturers provide data files for their drivers. Linux could do that.
Great ref on the New Jersey vs. Mass school! I've been debating this here for a decade and I never considered the whole architectural simplicity is part of "worse is better" but you are absolutely right.
OSX is substantially worse that Windows or Sun on binary compatibility issues. That is the most popular Unix out there. NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD are as bad or worse than Unix. Do you mean essentially dead Unixes like Irix?
Binary compatibility is highly non trivial. Microsoft spends billions every year working out kinks in a slowly moving system. Sun spends a fortune on it.
Linux simply doesn't have the resources for this task.
Everykeyboard shortcut in every Cocoa app is configurable. It is just a conf file you have to change. Do a websearch of Erica Sadun's book to get the details.
I was using Linux 14 years ago. It was fairly hard to get X running at all under XFree86, and hence the popularity of commercial X's like Metro-X. There were no GUIs, though there were very good window managers ported from NeXT, IRIX and SunOS/Solaris. Office apps were generally still commercial (like Word Perfect). GCC grossly underperformed windows compilers.
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We had something like this with the bureau of public health back around the WWI days. Why do you think it would unconstitutional today where government's role is seen as even larger?
Well bad fonts is a different problem. There has been progress there for example in 2003 the introduction of the vera fonts. But fonts is definitely still an area where Linux lags
But distributions do that fine for individuals. The point was that Linux is not a moving target for authors
" People use Linux because they want a UNIX like system on their desktop or laptop! The other reason people use Linux is because it free software!" Both of which are not sudden interests most likely so why then, wouldn't people be willing to buy hardware that worked.
"most people are not going to buy new hardware to get an OS working" sounds more like Linux was a lark.
The software as written by you would fit only well with your business processes. For your competitors to use it they would need to customize it. That's how you start getting improvements for free.
Double digit percentage of the home market is very high. Apple has just recently broken back into it with many advantages that Linux doesn't have. And if Linux is going to make a play it would be at the very low end (one laptop per child) where Windows costs make a difference.
You are asking for a lot. Getting from 1-10% is harder than getting from 10%-35%.
Mac has $PWD. If you mean opening files "open XYZ" would work. Besides what does current working directory do for you in an office app? I don't understand what you mean.
Or create a very good distribution designed to work well with ISVs. That was what Caldera did.
Or support software the Linux way. Let distributions take care of software distribution and either sell a binary component or some support.
This was addressed at a tech writer. He should understand the distinctions.
VMS (from which it was copied) had a solution where the administrator could grant himself permissions to do things but it left log behind. I believe NT had this as well, if I'm not incorrect.
SELinux is a good solution for root is god. If what you are looking for is privacy, encrypted virtual file systems work better. Remember if a guy has root he also have a screw driver.
Do you trust software vendors not to completely hose your system especially if you try and install software more than a year or two old? Static link please.
I'd much rather the vendors who are willing to that join LSB and get it moving faster. :-)
I like your rant and I love the idea of Squeek. So why not post a message to Gnome and see if they would support it if you wrote it?
OSX doesn't do that. Darwin runs fine in console mode and there is nothing a requires a GUI. All the GUI stuff runs in higher libraries.
Windows has excellent hardware support, particularly for hardware that doesn't follow spec and has bad drivers. Far far better than any other OS on the market. If this is a primary criteria you shouldn't be using Linux.
The thing that's better about Linux with hardware is if your hardware is having problems the ability to interact at a low level with the hardware is a lifesaver.
Which creates a whole extra layer since drivers need to be virtual. x86 hardware doesn't support a kernel monitoring real hardware. This is why Vista had driver compatibility issues.
All you are doing is having Microsoft write the real driver and having hardware manufacturers provide data files for their drivers. Linux could do that.
Great ref on the New Jersey vs. Mass school! I've been debating this here for a decade and I never considered the whole architectural simplicity is part of "worse is better" but you are absolutely right.
OSX is substantially worse that Windows or Sun on binary compatibility issues. That is the most popular Unix out there. NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD are as bad or worse than Unix. Do you mean essentially dead Unixes like Irix?
Binary compatibility is highly non trivial. Microsoft spends billions every year working out kinks in a slowly moving system. Sun spends a fortune on it.
Linux simply doesn't have the resources for this task.
What we need is a midi sequencer / notation editor which is part of Debian testing and gets into Kubuntu along with thousands of other apps.
Everykeyboard shortcut in every Cocoa app is configurable. It is just a conf file you have to change. Do a websearch of Erica Sadun's book to get the details.
How do you think Linux beat Solaris on the server market?
I was using Linux 14 years ago. It was fairly hard to get X running at all under XFree86, and hence the popularity of commercial X's like Metro-X. There were no GUIs, though there were very good window managers ported from NeXT, IRIX and SunOS/Solaris. Office apps were generally still commercial (like Word Perfect). GCC grossly underperformed windows compilers.
Should I keep going?
I think having free versions of most Adobe apps that work well enough for your needs is probably an easier goal to meet.