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Re: design goals vs mechanisms (was: Re: Let's do some coding :-)


From: Jonathan S. Shapiro
Subject: Re: design goals vs mechanisms (was: Re: Let's do some coding :-)
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:24:50 -0400

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 17:07 +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    Several people here have said "Linux sucks". 
> 
> Linux sucks because of the following: drivers, file-systems, IP stack
> in kernel-space.

This is a fine reason for you to fix linux, but not *one* of these
things is something that an end user gives a damn about. These are
implementation issues (and matters of opinion, even if I happen to
agree).

>From the end user perspective, Linux sucks because it is vulnerable,
unreliable, inflexible, and unsafe. Also because the available software
is pretty limited.

shap





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