linuxologist.com — Wrap your head around this: In a couple of hours, the 90’s will be 20 years ago! Yup, its scary I know. But hey think of it this way: in 1990 we didn’t even have Linux, and in 2000 Linux looks like a crippled OS compared to today’s Linux. So its all good.
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mogdorJan 2, 2010
My perspective is that the "know-it-alls" are the ones who like to point out and correct errors that specific people make (whether they be big or small) in order to look superior. I admit freely that I've been guilty of this in the past myself (though I'm working on it).The comment I made above was just for my own amusement.
zyxwvutsrJan 2, 2010
a) ATi drivers work better on Linux than they have in the past.b) Every once in a while there's a driver (with ANY OS) that doesn't work well - just stick with the old one until there's a fix, and at least with Linux there's the benefit of being able to go to the project's website and contact the team who created the drivers directlyc) You can turn off pulseaudio quite easily if you care tod) People have been pushing Canonical to include Empathy, and that's part of why it's there - not to mention, you can still just open up Synaptic and install Pidgin. Let's not forget - Empathy's still about 10x more useful than the IM client packaged with Windows - at least you can pick from a variety of different IM services to use.
wiseguy1020Jan 2, 2010
Don't worry we are laughing at you much harder.
ism70605Jan 2, 2010
@smotpokerX11 is an asynchronous protocol and the animations in it are not as smooth as other more modern technology.<a class="user" href="http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13643#post50718" rel="nofollow">http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13 ...</a><a class="user" href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1305320" rel="nofollow">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1305320</a>
zyxwvutsrJan 2, 2010
In the past, Microsoft has not always complied with the GPL.Also - software patents don't help anyone. You might think they help line the pockets of the people who obtain them, but they hardly even do that. Technology moves quickly enough that you'd be lucky if you make up the money you spent trying to get the patent before your patent is worth less than you spent trying to get it.I agree with rtaibah - I think what you're referring to is really the OIN - which doesn't put any code in Linux itself, it just offers a layer of protection for Linux distros from companies who might otherwise be tempted to do what SCO did (where they claimed that Linux violated their patents, and then tried to threaten some of the Linux distros and certain companies using Linux in their systems). It really was a pain in everyone's ass, even though from what evidence was shown it wasn't true. So now there's an incentive for companies not to attack Linux in this way.
pogsonJan 2, 2010
The reason GNU/Linux is so reliable is not magic. Anyone can write software that does not crash by paying attention to many details and following sound practices and testing thoroughly. M$ did not do these things in the old days. Their software would be full of memory leaks and eventually it would run out of memory even though lots was available it lost track. M$ is much better at that now. When XP was released it would crash once a week. After a couple of years of debugging and patching, it could run a month or more. Now, it is actually pretty decent most of the time for crashes. The question should be why does it take years to debug their code? The answers are several:*there are more people globally looking at the code in GNU/Linux because it is available to anyone to examine. The world is a lot bigger than M$.*that other OS is bloated. Bigger code is more complex and harder to debug. Every feature they add can add a thousand bugs.*that other OS ties everything together. Integration is good if you have no bugs but in the real world it causes one bug to present with multiple problems and makes connecting symptoms with diseases difficult.*that other OS has totally unnecessary stuff in it like DRM, WGdisA, malware scanners, etc.*M$ gives its own software advantages by having multiple APIs/more ways for things to go wrong*that other OS uses a binary registry that any app being installed or removed can edit, a recipe for disaster. In comparison, Debian has a simple rule that no package may modify another package's setting and they build all the packages...*that other OS is designed to lock people in and to exclude competition. Those purposes are not conducive to good design.*M$ makes money by selling you new and improved software. That is easier if it is buggy and you don't realize there is choice.
gilbesJan 2, 2010
"And by IBM, you probably mean OIN".Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. I was critcising the authors incorrect generalizations. So when I said IBM, I specifically meant IBM. And even more specfically I meant a quote in a legal brief made by representatives of the IBM Corporation.<a class="user" href="http://regmedia.co.uk/2009/09/10/23-964252-ibm.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://regmedia.co.uk/2009/09/10/23-964252-ibm.pdf</a>And even more specifically the statement that:"Patent protection has promoted the free sharing of source code on a patentee's terms - which has fueled the explosive growth of open source software development."
technopunditJan 2, 2010
This is the year of Linux.And Metallica's going to make a comeback in a BIG way!
ratsgJan 3, 2010
@pogson"MySQL is the most popular database management system for GNU/Linux"Why would you write a statement suggesting that MySQL is only for linux? MySQL runs fine on most Unix's, and Unix clones. There are even precompiled released for Netware, AS/400 and ms windows.I'm not certain why you are trying to tie MySQL to linux, but in what ever form, I am certain that MySQL, and its forks will do just fine.
ratsgJan 3, 2010
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pogsonJan 4, 2010
I was not suggesting MySQL is only useful for GNU/Linux. I was trying to emphasize the important role between the success of GNU/Linux on servers and the use of MySQL. Certainly MySQL works well on other systems. 90% of the PHP scripts I use work with MySQL. A few support other database management systems like Postgresql. LAMP is huge.