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This guy talks about Linux distributions for 13 paragraphs without mentioning package formats or using your desktop to develop for the server. He’s trying to push for splitting server and desktop distros without mentioning CoreOS. Could this be why folks accuse him of not using Linux? Maybe he talked to some actual Linux users, but ignored what they said and wrote what he felt like writing. Maybe he thinks Linux is controlled by some big corp and that this whining will get things done. Maybe they’re so desperate to print Linux articles it doesn’t matter if they’re clearly written by somebody who uses some other OS to get their work done. ...

After the recent spat of Linux is the Devil articles it is shocking to see something that gets it right. Links Top Linux Myths Dispelled - Datamation Shared with: Public

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Has Microsoft decided it was time to run a bunch of anti-Linux articles or something? I work and play on Linux every day. I haven’t booted into Windows in at least a year. I do also use MacOS, but Linux is my primary desktop. Links Linux Has Run Out of Time Shared with: Public +1’d by: Caskey Dickson Comments Christopher Hicks - 2014-08-28T04:02:21Z Oh, I forgot to mention the “killer app”: it just works. Uptimes of months are normal. ...

The author of this article likes to poke at the glitches in the Linux desktop. None of that sounds any worse than Windows. With a Linux desktop I don’t have to fear it slowing to a crawl under the load of malware you accumulate simply by installing “free” software or browsing the “free” Internet. With a Linux desktop I’m confidant that 99% of the drivers I need are already included and require no downloads or installs or extra work for me. If I want to install Windows 7 on a Windows 8 laptop how many hours will it take to get all of the drivers downloaded and installed? How many reboots will it take? How many calls to support or the help desk will it take? Does Matt’s straw man feel the brisk breeze blowing him down the way? The reliability and flexibility of the Linux desktop are unequaled. Even when canonical goes in some lame direction, the community forks and good things keep happening. How did the community alternatives to Windows 7 fare? Oh, they’re impossible because they don’t accept the value of openness or competition? I know I can keep running a Linux desktop forever and I can pay somebody to write patches if I desire. Someday Windows will follow OS/2, geos, and AmigaOS to the dust bins of history. No corporation can do that to Linux. ...

Why do we need phone manufacturers when we can make our own phones for less with off-the-shelf parts? Links Linux engineer builds Raspberry Pi-based Piphone for $158 Shared with: Public +1’d by: Wing Wong Comments Wing Wong - 2014-04-27T20:03:15Z Sweet.

I understand that hardware and software are different, but I think the making the analogy of open hardware to Linux is fair. This author can’t get past that. He comes up with lots of “buts” and his many buts have inspired some “buts” in response. BUT: the expense of change is highly variable depending on where you are in the release cycle. If you want to change software just before a release it is much more expensive and traumatic than making a change during the development part of the cycle. This is also true in hardware development. Changing a connector during the design would be just as cheap and painless as in the software world. Changing it close to release or while the part is ramping up production would and should be expensive, just like with code. Code will require retesting and repackaging which could push the release date and future development cycles back. Nothing is free, the analogy is working. ...

Thank goodness we have the open source community to keep Apple and Microsoft on their toes. Imagine how slack it would be otherwise. Links Linux: The clear choice for security Shared with: Public +1’d by: Paul Fernandez, K. Travis Walsh

Location: Pinewood Crescent, Yorktown, Virginia I find this analogy of religion to UNIX history much more revealing than the classic car brands analogy. Someday I will explain whether Microsoft is like Buddhism or Islam. Links Over-Extended Metaphor for the day - Charlie’s Diary Shared with: Public +1’d by: Joe Burby

So, do you want to cry about phantom floppy drives messages or fight viruses and malware? I’m not going to pretend that the Linux desktop is free of bugs or that every Windows app has an great equivalent in Linux. But installing Linux is often easier than installing Windows on the same hardware. Linux includes nearly all of the device drivers you will ever need. And I don’t have to fear the inevitable Windows spiral of death from malware, viruses, and bloat. So, do you want to cry about phantom floppy drives messages or fight viruses and malware for the rest of your life? Hmmmm. ...