Does Linux Cure Cancer?
Posted on April 20th, 2007 by Ben
Maybe it does…
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Linux Reality Check part 2
Posted on August 18th, 2006 by Ben
Scoble has a great commentary on the state of Linux fonts. It’s something I never thought about much before, but now that he’s brought it up, I realize that poor font quality is something I’ve definitely suffered through when I did actively use Linux.
It’s just another example of one the seemingly-minor-but-actually-major issues facing Linux. It’s [...]
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Linux Reality Check
Posted on August 18th, 2006 by Ben
Over at Slashdot, Fedora Project Leader Max Spevack responds to some frank question about the Fedora project.
He talks about a number of topics:
Unified package managers across distros
Propritetary drivers
Differences in Linux over time
Fedora’s biggest weakness
Threat of Vista
inclusion of NTFS driver in kernel
Wacky package dependencies
a few others…
What his article demontrates to me is that Linux is going [...]
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Credibility
Posted on February 2nd, 2006 by Ben
One thing I cannot stand that is so prevalent in the computer industry is criticism by people of ideas, products, and technologies that they don’t understand. You see this a lot in the OS wars–especially of Windows, but Linux and Apple are not immune.
In very few cases do people have a well-reasoned and thought out [...]
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Interesting article about Linux politics
Posted on May 20th, 2005 by Ben
John Dvorak has an interesting commentary on the implosion of the Linux community.
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m sympathetic to the view that Linux and OSS in general are having problems with religious zeal affecting people’s better judgement.
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Yankee Group vs. Linux Zealots
Posted on April 7th, 2005 by Ben
There is a wonderful little article about the Yankee Group’s reaction to criticism of their surveys.
I’m not as forgiving as Laura DiDio. My entire undergraduate education was heavily Linux-based, and as I saw it, there were very few reasonable opinions. It was either love linux above all else and bash Microsoft with idiotic assertions, or [...]
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