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I just came across an old OSNews article, and thought I'd share my thoughts on the subject.

http://www.osnews.com/story/7078/Why_Today_s_Programming_is_Still_S...

While I understand that practical solutions, like C++/Opensource are good, and I agree with Linus Torvalds, on effieceny, and I seem to get the impression, that at the end of the day, he likes to enjoy his computer, rather than think about certain concepts,

If anything,

Programming needs to develop in a way, that favours reusable code.

For instance

Assemly does this.

Routine A does this, and calls assembly.

Routine B, does this, and calls Routine A.

In the end, one has several layers, first one communicating with hardware, and on top, layers that are optimal mirrors of functions needed to be done, in a system, optimally factored, from a higher level perspective.

More and more in the past decade, I've noticed Engrish creeping into hardware documentation, manufacturer websites, and even driver install apps. Sadly I didn't save all of the examples, but there are three recently that really made me laugh:

The LimePC.com's description of their "LimeOS" product:

"A new OS based on the Linux that purpose to help users working easily,study easily and playing easily!"

A description of something called "uBoxu" (same site):

"We have another OS for your option, uBoxu. You can choose it and get upgraded by its USB."

A message I received while attempting to download router firmware from the ASUS website:

"Due to too many customers are downloading through our network currently, you might be going to experience slower download speed. We also provide P2P download which will be much faster. Would you like to try it?"

And while on the subject of ASUS, can anyone tell me what their motto ("Heart-touching") is supposed to mean?

Since it's obviously not Kubuntu, what should it be? I've been puzzling this over for months, and short of going back to Gentoo, I'm at a loss as to what distro to try. Anyone have suggestions?

Hello fellow trolls!

This is kind of stupid "ask OSnews" kind of conversation.

What have been your experiences with SSDs? I don't want to read benchmarks nor read technical articles, but anecdotes are just fine.

I could buy one for my main work laptop. No gaming, just dull UNIX and software development. Lot's of random writes; at least few GBs of repositories which I sync often and lot's of heavy daily builds. Stability over performance. Write endurance, myth or reality? Can I have journaling? Can I have life?

I played a bit with aros again and looked at some community boards. But I don't see why someone exept old amiga fans should support this system.

My problems with it are that the whole architecture is totally outdated. No memory protection, no support for multiple processors and an api which is horrible. The device support is really bad and it is very buggy.


Do I have a wrong view of the system?
What do you think about that?
Or is it really a research only OS?

Thom has all the rights in the world to be busy with his studies/being sick or whatever, but it makes you wonder ...

If Thom where to jump ship (which gets ever more likely the more time passes) will OSnews be able to survive?

(If Thom were to turn rouge or greedy he could just start his own site and take all the advertisement(which I block with AB+) money for himself and pay for CO2 reduction to save the planet. Wouldn't that be something?)

With Google getting involved with more and more internet fields, I am looking for a really good alternative to Google search in order to get away from them... ;-)
Some time ago I made some sketchy comparisons between several more or less randomly chosen search engines and Google, but was not satisfied with the search results.
So, what is currently a Google alternative that you can really recommend?

So, right now I'm at an odd point in my educational career; I'm essentially retaking a semester, after my new school ruled that without C++ in the course's syllabus, my old school's classes would not be counted for credit. So it's been a breeze-by semester so far; nothing unfamiliar in any of the assignments.

Which means I'm not doing anything new.

With that in mind, could anyone suggest ways to keep in practice? What do you do to refresh your skills?

In the line of upcoming interviews, we've also secured one with Michael Dexter, who is the program director of Linux Fund. We want your input, so we'd love it if you would input any questions or even ideas that may lead to questions in the comments below. We'll thoughtfully consider them and be sure to include as many as possible when finally conducting the interview.

Thank you all again in advance

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