taoofmac.com - Linux is a failure, and it's distros are a mess...

[sarlacii]

Just a bit of fun that I found on the Apple Mac blog Tao of Mac...

The OS that is “just about to change the world” (not my words, definitely not my belief), as soon as it stops being associated with the leetnix and zealot crowd that believe it to be the answer to all computing-related problems.

After ten years or so, it hasn’t made a single sizable dent on the incumbent PC desktop environment, and it doesn’t look like it will anytime soon.

Not having learned anything from the UNIX Wars of the previous generation, Linux is split into several different factions/sects/distributions.

When I must use it, prefer RedHat and derived works. I’ve used Fedora since version 4.2, and find it to be the most stable, organized and sensible distribution – but your mileage may vary, especially if you’re into the bleeding edge. I just prefer to use what works properly the first time, every time.

Now... from what I can work out, the Apple Mac is custom hack (beautifully executed to be true) of FreeBSD, NetBSD and 4.4BSD Lite2... i.e. OS X is Darwin with the Aqua GUI, derived from the NeXTStep/OpenStep system. No confusion here... no resemblance or similarity to Linux at all?

And the Mac controls the vast majority of the desktop market... er, no!

And there are also no Mac zealots/sects/die-hards to be found, running sites like Tao of Mac?

Come on mate!!! Who are you kidding. LOL And as for making no dent on the desktop market!?!

Nevermind all the embedded stuff - in the microprocessor market the future is all about linux cores... your router runs it, so does you mp3 player, and your firewall, and all your embedded tech belong to us! Desktop too. Oh, and server.

Oops... got a bit fanatical there. Must belong to a "sect". LMAO

[techieMoe]

After ten years or so, it hasn’t made a single sizable dent on the incumbent PC desktop environment, and it doesn’t look like it will anytime soon.

I think Microsoft might have a differing opinion on that.

Ballmer: Linux Bigger Competitor than Apple

About the original article though, it's a Mac troll. They exist, much like Windows trolls and (gasp!) Linux trolls. I remember seeing a photoshop someone did recently that said "Obvious troll is obvious." I think that fits.

[Thrillhouse]

What I want to know is where he got version 4.2 of Fedora. I guess that was only released to a very exclusive group of users. And it was stable too! Not a word you often hear associated with Fedora.

[sarlacii]

About the original article though, it's a Mac troll. They exist, much like Windows trolls and (gasp!) Linux trolls. I remember seeing a photoshop someone did recently that said "Obvious troll is obvious." I think that fits.

Yeh, you're probably right, techieMoe... inflammatory stuff is usually there as purposeful bait. Still... I did have a laugh, because it is something that I do come across quite often now.

Here in SA Apple pulled out during the apartheid years, meaning that their market share fell to zero. They're on the come-back in a serious way though, owing to a number of factors (brand awareness through iPods, failure of Vista etc.). As such a quite a few people I know have bought one, a move that I always support BTW... but they all think that their Mac runs something similar to Windows - proprietary, closed source. Then I mention BSD, and the fact that their Mac is basically running a Unix variant like Linux, and they're totally sceptical... until I fire up an xterm and run a few shell commands. LOL

So I guess that I saw the blog and it reminded me that the sentiment expressed there is a common one, and I went and joined a "sect". LOL

[sarlacii]

What I want to know is where he got version 4.2 of Fedora. I guess that was only released to a very exclusive group of users. And it was stable too! Not a word you often hear associated with Fedora.

What, you didn't try Fedora 4.2? Dude, everyone tried 4.2 - you're obviously out of touch there on Earth... the denizens of MacMars all tried 4.2 ages ago. LOL Jokes aside, I guess that would fall under techieMoe's potential troll bait heading?

[techieMoe]

Found the picture.

Obvious Troll is Obvious

[dijetlo]

I like the old mac laptops with the motorola risc processors. They were heavy and quite--sturdy, you could really whack somebody with one of those things and still hand it back to the end user in running order.
They also had one software repair protocol that had something to do with pulling out "carbon" and reloading it with...I forget. It worked though, on almost everything. Apple users seem more technology engaged than PC users on average,(at least they seemed that way at the time) but not much. They have a funny idea about who owns the machine the company gave them and what constitutes a rational software policy but a lot of Win users are just as bad.
I'm discovering the worst ones are the linux users. They don't care where the package come from. they have no idea who wrote or maintains it but if they want it and passes "make dep"...it's going in, baby. Then I'll figure out what it does and if it will work
. Half the time I think if limux just rebundled fluxbox as "Transparent-ICE with a phase shifting blood warp flux capacitor" we could eliminate all the problems with gnome by making it extinct. Come get your blood warp on, boys and girls....
We'd probably snag a ton of window users...
Consider that idea dropped in the suggestion box.

[MikeTbob]

I like the old mac laptops with the motorola risc processors. They were heavy and quite--sturdy, you could really whack somebody with one of those things and still hand it back to the end user in running order.

So *that's* why mac users loved them so much, and here I was thinking it was the software.

[bigtomrodney]

Found the picture.

Obvious Troll is Obvious

I would like everyone to know, that I will be posting this image in every troll thread from now on. That picture is amazing.