Re: The Unix Haters' Handbook

On 05/04/2008, Nils Kassube <kassubegmx.net> wrote:
 > Liam Proven wrote:
 >  > When I was a baby geek, I remember reading about
this seminal text, a
 >  > distillation from a long-active mailing list
called UNIX-HATERS. Now,
 >  > it's available for free:
 >
 >
 > Now? That's news from 5 years ago 
 >  <http://slashdot.org/articles/03/04/26/2354245.shtml>

Oh, I know. But in the last year or 2, we've got to the
position where
it's quicker & easier to install Ubuntu than XP &
its million patches,
and Ubuntu stomps all over the current MS offering in both
features &
performance. *That's* new.

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On 07/04/2008, Liam Proven <lprovengmail.com> wrote:

> Oh, I know. But in the last year or 2, we've got to the
position where
>  it's quicker & easier to install Ubuntu than XP
& its million patches,
>  and Ubuntu stomps all over the current MS offering in
both features &
>  performance. *That's* new.


Much as UNIX-HATERS is all about people used to proper
operating
systems getting annoyed at this shoddy Unix rubbish, so I
suspect that
in the far future people will look back fondly upon the
reliability of
Windows, as they deal with machines whose operating systems
crash
thousands of times a second and automatically reboot.
Probably
something Java-based - don't you love the way Java comes in
huge
tottering Jenga stacks of code, and everything works by the
code
shitting itself *by design* and the exception being caught?
It's the
way of the future!


- d.

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On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 17:13 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> Ubuntu stomps all over the current MS offering in both
features &
> performance. *That's* new.

That's not new either 


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