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suselinux:
Yah Linux sucks

It's pretty unimpresssive that the stoopid comunity only developed a viable server and desktop os with only volunteer support


People like stallman and Torvalds gave GNU/Linux to the world for free.........I'm not gonna bitch.

BTW you're obviously not using it so why do you even bother to bitch?

preacher:
Jimmy James there is a reason we defend linux so much, not because we think it is perfect, but because we like it. The truth is that mac users are the same way with their OS, they insist nothing is better regardless of countless facts. The truth is that linux is the only truly viable alternative to proprietary hardware and operating systems. That is it.

slave:
Basically, but FreeBSD isn't so bad, just not my kind of thing, really.  I think Linux is being developed at a faster rate and therefore will be more relevent in the future.

preacher:

quote:Originally posted by Linux User #5225982375:
Basically, but FreeBSD isn't so bad, just not my kind of thing, really.  I think Linux is being developed at a faster rate and therefore will be more relevent in the future.
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I like FreeBSD, but it made me feel like a moron the first time I used it, and this is coming from a linux geek. Besides FreeBSD is x86 only, you cant run it on proprietary hardware like Macs, and Sparcs. Linux is the only OS aside from NetBSD, that runs on every major architecture. The usability of linux and NetBSD are about equal , so what it comes down to are little things like new hardware support, ease of install, number of users for user based support, easy config utilities. Linux is beating NetBSD in these fields. That is why I still praise linux as being the most viable alternative on proprietary hardware, or against a proprietary OS.

Basically what Im trying to say is that if you have a Sparc and you dont like Solaris, or you have a mac and dont want to use mac OS (like that would ever happen) you dont have too many other options. Linux is the best one in my opinion.

Laukev7:

quote:Originally posted by ThePreacher:
Jimmy James there is a reason we defend linux so much, not because we think it is perfect, but because we like it. The truth is that mac users are the same way with their OS, they insist nothing is better regardless of countless facts. The truth is that linux is the only truly viable alternative to proprietary hardware and operating systems. That is it.
--- End quote ---


1) The truth is that Linux is, in fact, nothing more than a kernel. The Darwin kernel is just as open/free as the Linux kernel.

2) Most mainstream Linux distros are nothing more than copycats, with interfaces ripped off from the flawed interface of Microsoft Windows, based on a kernel ripped off from another kernel and based on a dated architecture misadapted for desktop operating systems, unlike OpenStep. Not to mention the countless Linux apps that are direct rip-offs of other apps. Still today, many Linux features come, albeit via Microsoft Windows, from Apple innovation.

3) Linux is based on an OS designed for servers, whereas Mac OS X is based on OpenStep, which was designed for the desktop.

4) Despite being open source, Linux desktops have been very slow to evolve, and are still not as easy to manage as Mac OS, which in comparison has been easy to use since day one in 1984. Countless other OSes, including Mac OS X and BeOS, have achieved in a few years what Linux has not done in a decade: ease of use for simple AND complex tasks.

5) Even software development tools are easier on Mac OS X than on Linux, which is supposedly a stronghold for programmers. Apple's Xcode allows you to change source code of a running program, while compiling it as you change the code!

6) For the record, even some system administrators considered UNIX (not counting OpenStep) a nightmare compared to other easier, more powerful and more flexible server OSes like VMS (I cannot testify this, for I have never used VMS).

7) Not only Mac users say that Linux is not as good as OS X. BeOS users have said it, OpenStep users have said it, Windows users have said it, people who have tried to switch to Linux (ie. me) have said it. Even the CEO of Redhat said that Linux is not ready for the desktop.

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