OLS: On how user space sucks
OLS: On how user space sucks
Posted Jul 21, 2006 1:17 UTC (Fri) by sepreece (guest, #19270)In reply to: OLS: On how user space sucks by tomsi
Parent article: OLS: On how user space sucks
I don't know about Windows, but you could do similar analysis on Unix systems, since 1990-ish, despite their being closed source. Dave's report (which was, indeed, hilarious, and a great lesson for us all) was based on observing the apps from outside (watching their file operations in particular).
Posted Jul 21, 2006 3:40 UTC (Fri)
by cventers (guest, #31465)
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Right. The difference with free software, though, is that you don't have OLS: On how user space sucks
to wait for the vendor to fix it (or hope that they care enough). If
something is really itching, you're 100% empowered to scratch it.