What do you do when your OS falls behind the competition and can‘t break off the 3% mark? Answer: You make it open source, so that the million man army will descend from the sky and work on it for free. Or at least, this is what you may have been led to believe if you listen to ESR and the other pushers of open source who propagate such myths too much. After all, it totally worked for Nokia‘s Symbian and Sun‘s Solaris, right? What makes those egghead CEOs think that the million man army will come ...
Apparently the software running the websites of the Occupy Wall Street movement is using Django and Debian behind the scenes (all FOSS, mind you).
Proof positive that LinuxIsCommunism™ I guess. DigitalAthiest will have a field day with this.
Watch as this unsuspecting sysadmin tries to change his MOTD. Should just be a simple edit to /etc/motd, right? Well, not in the new modern era of Linux, where every subsystem requires its own complicated set of scripts that were overengineered by someone trying to prove their l33t php skills.
Meanwhile, Cisco’s IOS, easily the shittiest and least usable OS in human history, takes only 2 commands to update the MOTD.
Julian Assange, freedom crusader general and an honorary pastor of the church of GNU/Linux, today won the right to appeal his case of obviously rigged rape charges to the UK’s supreme court. Hopefully they’ll throw out this garbage made up by the world’s governments just to strike terror into the hearts of those who would fight for freedom of information.
In a moment of bad judgement, I read a slashdot story. The comments are pure gold, in which the typically bitter and perpetually angry /. nerds are suddenly confused as to why no one wants to hire them. A running theme in the comments is how skilled they are with C; for some reason, I get the feeling these guys aren’t up to speed with modern development environments like Django. Think that might have something to do with their employment prospects?
Fresh from appreciating the awesome mathematical genius whereby various Loons have convinced themselves that the Linux kernel does not, in fact, have any bloat at all, I found this on the Pog-Blog, courtesy of Oiaohm.
I’m not sure what to make of it, really. It’s insanely detailed, to no obvious effect. Apparently, to sum it up, the Windows kernel lacks features that make Linux Linux, whereas the Linux kernel lacks features that make Windows Windows. More news at eleven.
Whatever. It is most certainly FUD, of a high and almost obsessive quality.
And before you all start bleating, you can read it in English (or, I presume, your local language). Load it up in Chrome and there you go. I’ve read it in both, and here are the highlights:
Er ist unwahrscheinlich, dass er je wirkliche Probleme macht, weil man schon exotische Dinge tun muss, damit er überhaupt auftritt. Und das Lustige daran war, dass er bereits seit fünf Jahren existiert. Aber es ist ein Beispiel für ein Subsystem, für das es nur eine Handvoll Leute gibt.
So, no quality control worth shit then. “Bereits seit fünf Jahren.” “Nur ein Handvoll ...
This isn’t exactly FUD, but should be great to dispel Canonical’s plans to have, what was it, some 400 million people using Ubuntu in the next 10 years or so…
According to DistroWatch, in the last month Ubuntu went from #2 down to #4, while Linux Mint saw significant growth.
That GNOME stuff is so great people just can’t handle the awesomeness… I think that’s a valid explanation, don’t you?
Another lovely article from LinuxInsider.com, quoting Slashdot users.
The quote at the top of the article pretty much gives you everything you need to know about the article:
“Linux is like that classic muscle car, in that if you are willing to put in the hours and don’t mind spending your weekends under the hood, you’ll have yourself a sweet ride at the end of the day and the knowledge you built and tweaked it with your own two hands,” said Slashdot blogger hairyfeet. “But if you aren’t willing to put in the work, all it ...
Yes, children, it’s the BBC quiz of the week, this time dedicated to the proposition that UK schools just don’t teach enough about computer science.
All seven questions are shameful, but you should pay particular attention to question number 6.
I scored 6/7. And no, I didn’t fail on the obligatory calculus question.
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OK, time’s up on Question 6. Nobody noticed the obvious FUD:
“CORRECT! It’s PCF – Programming Computable Functions. WYSIWYG – what you see is what you get – describes software in which content displayed on screen is close in appearance to what is printed ...
