Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Feb 2008 21:32 UTC, submitted by Flatland_Spider
The Linux Foundation has posted the second half of its long and thorough interview with Linux founder Linus Torvalds, part of the Foundation's 'open voices' podcast. While the first part of the interview focused on the Linux development community, this time Torvalds sounds off on everything from patents and innovation to the future of Linux. According to Torvalds the reason Linux hasn't taken off is that most people are happy with the way things are. "If you act differently from Windows, even if you act in some ways better, it doesn't matter; better is worse if it's different." Torvalds also attributes much of the frustration with Windows Vista to this same idea. In other words, it's not that Vista is worse than XP, but it's different and that causes distress among users.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Either you must be adding a lot of software to Ubuntu, or changing a lot of system files... or, out and out lying.
There is no way Ubuntu will prompt for the sudo password anywhere near as much as UAC on Vista.
for example.
I set up a friends computer with Ubuntu, installed automatix and updated.
They have been using the machine for four months and have NEVER called asking for the sudo password.
They are a normal Joe and Jolene User family.
On my own Vista, I get prompted by UAC to run a program I downloaded, every single time I try to run it.
I even get prompted for the UAC password when I try to change screen resolution. Retarded.
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2005-07-17
my experience for UAC is that the hype is off the mark. I only seem to get it when I'm doing something that I should get warned about. The full screen blackout is a little annoying, but it gets attention. I get a "sudo" password warning in OSx or Ubuntu about as much as I get UAC in Vista. Windows users aren't used to thinking about what's dangerous, and programmers don't properly limit their program's scope to non-dangerous functions like they do in mac or linux.