[oclug] sco vs. linux cont....

[Ross Jordan]

> 
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:35:28 -0400 (EDT)
> Ross Jordan <rjordan at student.math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > I hate to break it to you, but sloppy punctuation is just that. 
> > > Pretending that you are adhering to something from 20+ years ago is
> > > just nonsense, and a scapegoat.  If we did that, we'd never include
> > > attachments in email, and we'd be bemoaning 10b worth of data as if it
> > > was worth of million bucks.
> > 
> > Yeah, I suggest you take the lead. Upgrade from your 20+ year old 
> > operating system, use a nice GUI mail reader, send html mail with
> > colours, pictures and large attachments (cause we all have the
> > bandwidth these days).
> 
> Everyone considers 10b to be virtually *NOTHING* in terms of data these
> days.  Are you seriously suggesting otherwise?  Furthermore, no where
> above did I suggest wasting space just for the heck of it.  I won't even
> respond to the rest of that paragraph, for its inclusion was there as a
> flame.
> > 
> > Why do you use an operating system (*nix) that hasn't significantly 
> > changed in over twenty years; especially when there are newer
> > alternatives: windows, plan 9, inferno, etc.
> 
> Wow.  Could you be any more off target?
> 
> Linux is new.  Linux didn't exist 20 years ago.  A large number of the
> applications I use every day with Linux didn't exist 20 years ago. 
> Virtually all of the applications that I use, that did exist 20 years ago,
> have undergone massive code changes since then.
> 
> 20 years old?  Do a little research! 

Of course Linux isn't 20 years old, but it is essentially Unix which
hasn't significantly changed in over 20 years. Yes of course there is
new applications, but the programming paradigms and basic OS 
functionality is largely the same. Pipes, redirection, "everything is
a file", forking, everything launched from init, directory/fs structure,
permissions, etc. haven't changed. Face it, you are using an improved,
polished 20 years old OS with new Bells and whistles. That doesn't make
it bad, it makes it mature, robust, well defined.

-Ross