Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 17th Mar 2008 07:36 UTC
"Computer platform advocacy can bubble up in the strangest places. In a recent interview at a conference in Australia, Linux creator Linus Torvalds got the Macintosh community in an uproar when he described Mac OS X's file system as 'complete and utter crap, which is scary'. What did he mean? What is a 'file system' anyway, and why would we care why one is better than another? At first glance, it might seem that file systems are boring technical widgetry that would never impact our lives directly, but in fact, the humble file system has a huge influence on how we use and interact with computers."
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2005-06-29
I've never recommended an article on OSNews (seeing I'm the one putting them there in the first place), but this is an exception. This is an excellent article, and I'm actually a little jealous I didn't write this; humour, technical information, credit-where-it's-due, it has it all.
Great article, and definitely worth a read.