Linked by Jeremy LaCroix on Wed 13th Apr 2005 06:51 UTC
I've only been using GNU/Linux since 2001, so I won't say that I'm by any means an expert yet, as most of those that are reading this, probably have been using Linux much longer than I have. However, I still have high hopes for the Linux scene. The purpose of this article is to voice my personal opinion on what I feel is keeping GNU/Linux from taking over the mainstream operating system market. My intentions aren't to "badtalk" the open source kernel+apps, but rather give constructive criticsm on what I personally feel it could be done better.
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Aaaah, thats why SVs release they software in different versions for Windows 98,ME,NT,2003,XP etc because its all backwards compatible, right.
No they don't, actually. Most vendors will create unified software packages for 98/NT/XP etc. and it will just work. MSI is actually available for 95 and above, but realistically only works for 98 and above. Binaries that you had on 98 will mostly just work on XP. I've got games from about 96/97/98 that still work absolutely fine.
Where this falls down is the drivers side of things, for fairly obvious reasons.