Linked by Mystilleef on Mon 29th Sep 2003 06:30 UTC
Linux will become ubiquitous in the year 3000. Okay, that was a horrible joke. Linux is just a kernel, the engine that runs an operating system. By itself, it is essentially useless. Kernels shouldn't be discussed or noticed by normal users. And as such when providing these users with reviews, previews and "professional" opinions, computer consultants, computer reviewers and computer journalists should not spew headlines like "Linux is not ready for prime time", "Linux on the desktop by XXX", "Linux to takeover Windows", "Linux is not ready for desktop" and so on.
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Just for the record I am writing this on a Red Hat 9 laptop.
Just a quick observation. If open source development is considered to be so much faster (given the resources of many people) than how could something like OS X become so easy, so pretty, so stable so fast.
I only have one answer VISION, Steve Jobs has it weather you like it not. Someone is sitting there with a whip making sure the the goals are met, one interface, one file system, one way to install software etc.
They have no time and money to argue KDE vs GNOME vs xxxx, rpm vs apt vs tar etc ....
So yes there is an overwhelming resource base in the open source world but most of it is wasted. It is one big research project. The only place where it seems to work is for example the kernel,why? Because there is a vision and Linus is the on with the whip.
Back to my original question.
How did Apple manage to create OS X to be so easy, so pretty, so stable and all in such a short time?
Time to upgrade, and get some work done.
Cheers