Don't feed the troll

Posted Aug 7, 2009 8:45 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: WHAT A JOKE LINUX HAS BECOME by cgorac
Parent article: Free Desktop Communities come together at GCDS (KDEDot)

He comes from the academic standpoint - from the ivory tower and so can happily be ignored. Remember the quote?

Among the people who actually design operating systems, the debate is essentially over. Microkernels have won.

There are people who design an operation systems and there are people who make the operating systems. If you want somthing grant-worthy, then yes, Linux is boring and basically a joke, but if you want actual usable system, then story is different.

Don't feed the troll

Posted Aug 8, 2009 13:32 UTC (Sat) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link] (1 responses)

Hm, right. For the people living in The Land of Fant^WTheory, the forays
into the Real World can sometimes be (bitter) disappointments. Especially
if one gets stuck into it.

Wait...! What if the commenter is referring to the promise of graphical
Linux consoles about ten years ago with the nicely modularized KGI (which
supported only few gfx cards like my old MGA) and only now we're finally
getting something resembling it? I'm still annoyed about that... :-)

As to Unix Desktop innovation, I'd like to see some graphical automation
tool for doing what one can do with pipes etc. on command line.

Don't feed the troll

Posted Aug 8, 2009 17:34 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

My understanding is that Xerox PARC *had* a graphical pipeline tool. It
wasn't one of the features copied by Jobs for the Lisa and Mac, and was
forgotten.