Linked by Thom "Slakje" Holwerda on Sun 27th Jul 2003 19:04 UTC
Misinterpreted. I think that is about the best word around to describe the reactions to my previous article. Whether it has been misinterpreted due to people only reading what they want to read, due to an unclear choice of words on my behalf, or other factors, I am going to try it again. I will try to explain my position, again. Now, more stable, the code has been rewritten from scratch!
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Have you heard of the story of the donkey, the man and his son? One day, a man, his son and their donkey were travelling to a city. They all set off one foot one early morning. After having walked several hours, they reached the first neighbouring town. 'The gods be praised.', the people of the town clamored. 'Where I are from you and where are you headed?', they asked invitingly. 'We are from the neighbouring town and we are heading four towns away from this.', they responded.
'What idiots!', the people of the town retorted. 'You have a donkey and you walked all the way here on foot?!?' 'Surely the gods have cursed you.' The man and son pondered upon their stupidity, and decided to board the donkey on the next journey to the next town. The next morning they travelled on the donkey to the next town.
As they crossed the next town, the inhabitants muttered, 'Poor donkey; these two heartless souls sitting on a poor donkey.' 'How mean of them.' The man and the son pondered over their cruelty and decided on the next journey only the man will ride the donkey, while the son walks. That'll be less cruel on the animal they thought.
In the next town they were met with similar contempt. 'What kind of father let's his son suffer while he lavishes in comfort on top of a donkey?', the towns people angrily retorted. The father thought of his selfishness and suggested the son ride the donkey to the next town.
The hostility didn't get any better. 'Disrespecful kid', the people of the next town wailed. 'Your father has seen many years than you have, has worn more rags than you have and has been kind enough to bring you to life, yet you treat him with disdain while you travel comfortably on the donkey'. 'May you be cursed', the angry inhabitants shouted.
The moral of the story, Linux can't please the whole world. Also be kind enough to read my response on your first article titled "THE MASSES CAN GO TO HELL" That about somes it up.
I've found the linux file system to be more intuitive and better organised than Windows XP and it predecessors. The Reiser, ext3, XFS, JFS are all faster than NTFS and they hardly fragment like NTFS, FAT or FAT32 do.
My Gentoo Linux box boots up faster than my Windows XP machine. If you are so disgruntled about certain things in Linux the most productive and honorable way of going about it is to start a project to correct what you think are the defficiencies. Linux will never be windows or copy it. Linux will never be MacOS or copy it. To acknowledge that, is the to begin to understand the wisdom of Linux.
By the way, have you ever tried searching for binaries or executables in Windows? Are you telling me it's easier than searching /bin or /usr/bin? How about .dlls? Are you telling me it's easier than /lib or /usr/lib.
Friend, you need to come to terms with Linux. Bootup time, placement of files and filesystems hardly qualify as the problems facing Linux as it were today. In some instances, they are its merits.
Regards,
Mystilleef