Linked by Stefanos "Titanas" Kofopoulos on Tue 17th Dec 2002 06:32 UTC
Hundreds of debates, countless flames, innumerable passionate supporters, no limits, no ending lines, no result. The conflicts keep on going and going and going. It doesn't matter if it's Cisco's IOS, Microsoft's Windows, Suse's Linux or FreeBSD. People struggle to prove their
platform's superiority ignoring that an Operating System is just a tool focusing on specific needs.
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Okay, first of all, I barely understood the Title-isn't Cisco's IOS a completely different animal from Windows and *nix? Man, Eugenia drops her hours and the editorial skill goes all to hell. Who let this slide through?
Personally, I'd perfer to pay her than see the quality at OSNEWS drop.
That aside, I've been dabling in linux again, and here's what I've discovered-XP is real hard to walk away from. Simple things, like running warcarft, cause a boatload of trouble on my laptop....hey, I just want to play some games instead of watch TV. I don't need to console, type winex, and spend 2 hours debugging the code so that it plays nice with the BS hardware Dell sent me.
I want to throw together a remix, or a dj mix-running gdam, audacity, etc., instead of Mixmeister and Soundforge isn't a value add to me. I'm just intentionally making things more difficult on myself by using linux. The end result is the goal, not endlessly goofing with the code in a notepad.
Some people have the latest hardware, love to tinker with their OS, and get kicks out of surmounting the obstacles their OS puts in front of them. More power.
I want to get something done.