After takin' a swig o' grog, GPS belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> I have used Linux for > 10 years now, sometimes with regret, and often with
> frustration. The perception of the quality of Linux, often doesn't match
> the reality, test suites, or bug trackers.
I've used if for about 8 years now, and it is a very exciting and good
environment for me. I /far/ /and/ /away/ prefer it to Windows, and I love
the deep vistas of functionality it has opened up to me, compared to
Windows.
> All major operating systems that I am aware of ship with some bugs.
No shit, Sherlock.
It is how they are dealt with that is important.
Linux kicks the asses of Windows and other UNIXen (except maybe OpenBSD)
in how it resolves issues that its development brings up.
Don't know about Mac OSX, though.
> Software engineering is a difficult task, and we tend to use very primitive
> tools in general. Some people have been calling and claiming we need to
> rethink the whole software stack, and I think they are right (in hindsight).
> I'm not sure how developers will begin to get out of the bog we have built
> for ourselves, and users.
Huh? The biggest bog has been built by the commercial software developers.
In comparison, open-source and Free software are cakewalks.
> I think it's important to also note that the PCLOS magazine not doing well
> may not be related to PCLOS being successful. In fact paper magazines are
> very difficult to sell these days, especially technical magazines.
I was going to do the NSS thing I did above, but I'll just stick with "good
point".
> The good
> tech magazines that used to feature electronics, computers, etc. are now
> only online, if they survived at all.
Take the sad case of Dr Dobbs Journal. I loved that magazine, it had
something for every developer. Then it started getting thinner and thinner.
Then it also started becoming a soapbox for commercial vendors.
Then one day it was gone, and my subscription morphed into a subscription to
InfoWorld, a pointy-haired-boss soapbox, with a small section called "Dr
Dobbs Journal."
Anyway, your "concern" for Linux is ... touching.
--
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely
the most important.
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Case of Identity"
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