Linked by Thom "Slakje" Holwerda on Fri 25th Jul 2003 19:42 UTC
To me, it's a miracle how every tiny article on OSNews.com, or any other tech-site, ends up in people shouting all sorts of nonsense at each other like "Linux is gonna bring back Elvis", "Windows shot president Kennedy", "Linux kept the cold war cold" or "Bill Gates wants to buy the moon and charge people for looking at it". Do these people really know what they are saying, or are they just going with the Open-Source flow? Update: Rebuttal article here.
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Boot up time is very much a non-issue. In slackware w/ edited init script I could boot from lilo to X in under 15 seconds on a 233 MX Gateway laptop. Gentoo is almost this fast of a booter too.
This guy cites too many diffrent Linux distrobutions as a problem, but it seems to me his lack of trying different Linux distrobutions is the problem. There is no golden distrobution where you get an extremely fast desktop, good server, great hardware support, easy to use, install any program without thinking about, do everything without playing give and take distro. But if you understand what you need you can pick a distro that is very well suited to you. Which I think is very much diffrent from Windows and what you suggest which is pretty much one size fits all. I believe trying to make one distrobution fit everyone is a terrible way to try to create a good operating system, and it's one of the reasons why I can't stand to use Windows anymore.
As a side note could someone register "Linux XP" and "Linux Longhorn" as a trademark and not allow anyone to use them...ever?