Comments on: Linux is whatever you want it to be http://www.systemcall.org/blog/2009/11/linux-is-whatever-you-want-it-to-be/ Security, development and a bit of madness Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:41:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: network management tools http://www.systemcall.org/blog/2009/11/linux-is-whatever-you-want-it-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-409 network management tools Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:46:34 +0000 http://www.systemcall.org/blog/?p=366#comment-409 Linux is better than any other thing available in the market, and not so god for new software Linux is better than any other thing available in the market, and not so god for new software

]]> By: rengolin http://www.systemcall.org/blog/2009/11/linux-is-whatever-you-want-it-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-401 rengolin Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:14:53 +0000 http://www.systemcall.org/blog/?p=366#comment-401 It's the "One OS to rule them all" paradox... If there was only one OS, it'd be so big and complex, people would configure it in so many different ways, that the end result would be pretty much what Linux is now. Closed source OSes are just as useless for that matter. Even if they restrict your changes, they still don't stop people from creating a different OS, and that's what Linux is. It’s the “One OS to rule them all” paradox…

If there was only one OS, it’d be so big and complex, people would configure it in so many different ways, that the end result would be pretty much what Linux is now.

Closed source OSes are just as useless for that matter. Even if they restrict your changes, they still don’t stop people from creating a different OS, and that’s what Linux is.

]]> By: Dan, Conveyancing Developer, UK http://www.systemcall.org/blog/2009/11/linux-is-whatever-you-want-it-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-400 Dan, Conveyancing Developer, UK Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:04:02 +0000 http://www.systemcall.org/blog/?p=366#comment-400 It's the little differences between all of Linux versions that makes it such a pain... It's no less annoying than the things that stop working between different versions of Windows, or the differences between web-browsers in the way in which they render HTML, intepret style sheets and handle java-script. All of these little differences add up to a large cost and a lot of wasted time for us poor developers. Customers just see applications as "buggy", when in reality, they were fine until the O/S got upgraded (etc.). I'd settle for ONE O/S that always remains truly backwards compatable. That's a platform worth investing in from a developer's viewpoint. It’s the little differences between all of Linux versions that makes it such a pain… It’s no less annoying than the things that stop working between different versions of Windows, or the differences between web-browsers in the way in which they render HTML, intepret style sheets and handle java-script. All of these little differences add up to a large cost and a lot of wasted time for us poor developers. Customers just see applications as “buggy”, when in reality, they were fine until the O/S got upgraded (etc.). I’d settle for ONE O/S that always remains truly backwards compatable. That’s a platform worth investing in from a developer’s viewpoint.

]]> By: Jan Sommer http://www.systemcall.org/blog/2009/11/linux-is-whatever-you-want-it-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-399 Jan Sommer Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:58:08 +0000 http://www.systemcall.org/blog/?p=366#comment-399 So true. Seems like everybody has this idea that there's only one real system, and everything else is stupid. What I don't understand is why you would limit yourself to for instance Mac as your only platform. People are almost religious about their choice of OS (well, those who are aware of that fact that there exists other OS'es besides Windows) Keep up those interesting posts - I might not be commenting them all by I'm reading them. So true. Seems like everybody has this idea that there’s only one real system, and everything else is stupid. What I don’t understand is why you would limit yourself to for instance Mac as your only platform. People are almost religious about their choice of OS (well, those who are aware of that fact that there exists other OS’es besides Windows)

Keep up those interesting posts – I might not be commenting them all by I’m reading them.

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