Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th Feb 2008 22:47 UTC, submitted by tyrione
Linus Torvalds, leader of the cult of Linux, took a swipe at Apple's OS X and Microsoft Vista in the same breath at a conference in Australia last week. Speaking at the linux.conf.au conference in Melbourne, Australia, a few weeks ago, Torvalds called Leopard 'utter crap' and bashed the proprietary OS makers for being greedy, according to Australian reporter Nick Miller in the The Age. "I don't think they're equally flawed - I think Leopard is a much better system," Torvalds said. "(But) OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary." He also scoffed at his rivals' practice of revenue-through-renewal by launching upgrades that require new purchases. "An operating system should be completely invisible," Torvalds said. "To Microsoft and Apple (it is) a way to control the whole environment - to force people to upgrade their applications and hardware."
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2007-12-09
File systems is totally boring to me. What am I missing?
So, I am running OS X, subjectively I must say that it just works and feels quite fast. What am I missing compared to Linux regarding file systems?
I know HPS+ is really old and that they had to add something to it to get all that images of the entire disk in Time Machine. And I heard that ZFS is coming, but should I really feel bad that I don't have one of the file systems that linux distros use? What would be better in my daily writing and reading on my mac?
Edited 2008-02-08 06:49 UTC