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Friday 25 January 2008, 12:58 PM
'Why Linux is inferior to Windows and Macintosh'
"There is little to no innovation in Linux," says Yorkshire developer vesuvius. "One cannot afford to be as structured in an open source environment. Yes old ideas are used innovatively but there is no new stuff."
"... what are the innovative features that Linux brings to the table? For the recent Flurry of Windows 7 pandemonium here at '9, the debate was centred around design and implementation of features. We can almost always expect to be surprised (anticipate derision here) by each new Windows OS, what is it that Linux has? Why is it so great?"
Feel free to discuss ideas below...
PreviousComments on this post
ha ha ha
I see where you are going.
My perspective is that Linux does follow on from the others because there isnt the money to go forward.
But what it does, it does more reliably than Windows.
Less restarts. less blue screens.
=getting what you paid for: a reliable system.
Its no good having a racing car in business:goes 200mph but only lasts for 3 hours. In the IT world systems need to stay running for years.
yeah...
cause it was innovation when microsoft copy the windows GUI from apple
cause it was innovation when add tabs to the browser
cause it was innovation when seek security in windows when linux born with it
cause it was innovation when released the same old office and media center just changing the year in the name
yeah...
microsoft is full of innovation, it surprise us each year when they release their products with features, we all see the year before from other companies
You can't blame Microsoft developers for complaining, i mean they're used to getting their ideas from other developers, maybe lately the linux people have not provided anything worth copying!
Cough cough. Compiz fusion cough cough. ssh cough cough --> remote desktop ... gui-less operation cough cough (coming to windows server 2008 i believe- core mode). true Multi-user operating system.... oh wait microsoft only copied that after oh wait .... you still can't have more than one user on the computer at one time in the desktop versions of windows (unless I am mistaken) by default- i.e. no more than one gui session at one time on the one computer. -In terms Updating microsoft still has a lot to learn from other operating systems, there was autopatcher but tis no more (coming back at the moment - still in beta) so windows domains have to download their updates from updates blah microsoft.com .... how very nice - also the updating procedure is a real pain. :) apt-get update or yum update etc. beats windows update any day. Microsoft copying / restoring the command line capabilities (powershell) - powershell has ls, cat etc. (a lot of bash things / aliases) . Security - they recently managed to grab one of the members of apparmor. They copied blogging, emailing, browsing, file management, multiuser like operating system idea, multimedia extensions, tcp/ip stack, ftp client, ogg for their xbox, network file sharing, servers, DOS was bought not made by microsoft originally, ah .... oh yeah touch operation :) - this idea has been around for a long time.....
lastly they are trying to copy the linux community and produce a community of their own.
So what has microsoft actually done by themselves ? .... ....
so lets take dos, gui (xerox --> apple), command line flexibility, multiuser wantobe operating system, networking ... away and the products that come with these features.... ah what have they done ? maybe they came up with ntfs and wma, wmv.
What has linux done in terms of innovation, well for a start the operating system is free as in freedom- no end user license agreement no privacy policy, belief in others(community), most distributions provide a full office suit for free, provides good desktop effects and usability (compiz-fusion and the gnome team), provide a powerful and robust gui (kde) --(gnome and kde are different one is not better than the other). Provide the framework to work on systems other than computers in many applications, gps devices, nas devices, multimedia (neuros osd is a good example) and it provides choice of a range of applications through simple and easy to use gui programs (synaptic among others). It Provides clustering capabilities, provides the ability to run a lot of windows programs (wine is supporting more and more applications - a lot of games now run well under linux using wine), support for true open standards, listen directly to their users, provide a large amount of documentation on various programs etc., good utilization of hardware, answers to questions that can be found by googling by members in irc rooms, support and customisation from many different companies for similar products (novell, red hat etc.). Linux powers google, innovation ? .... want to go and try the windows search mmm ?
This is in addition to operating with great stability, flexibility and usability. (try to network two computers to share files in the fewest number of steps between two computers - windows vista is a struggle you get warnings about firewalls being disabled or allowing file sharing along with the constant questions about are you sure about doing this ? )
