"In January 20145"
Time travel! :o
Linus Torvalds' regular Sunday night missive on the state of kernel development has labelled version 4.2 as a bit of a problem child and warned he “might not react politely” to some developer requests. Announcing the release of release candidate five (rv5), Torvalds says “it's looking like 4.2 might be one of the releases …
As comparison, people who claim or think they're mad usually aren't.
It's the bosses that declare they are intelligent* and logical that scare me.
* and when a boss tells me I am intelligent, I get instantly suspicious someone is trying to manipulate me rather clumsily.
In Torvald's case I'd call it a pretty good case of self-awareness. He's NOT a nice person. In fact he's a raging arsehole of a project manager. That fact that he freely admits it makes him only slightly better than a raging arsehole who thinks they're popular.
Thanks for your hackneyed (ignorant) comments regarding Linux on the Desktop - I like a Troll as much as the next man but the reality is that Linux on the Desktop is not just for the obviously more intelligent computer users at home, but also being adopted by more and more companies and governments:-
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/five-big-names-that-use-linux-on-the-desktop/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters
If you are not using Linux on your desktop then I guess you must be one of the less clever home users, or you work for a backward thinking company - sorry to hear that!
"If you are not using Linux on your desktop then I guess you must be one of the less clever home users, or you work for a backward thinking company - sorry to hear that!"
Or you / your business uses software that hasn't been ported onto Linux because there isn't enough of a market there.
Grow up!
Could be the FreeBSD community and a certain blue haired bridge troll who is shitting up the place.
You could be fighting over the "code of Conduct" and how best to ensure that nobody's fee fees are hurt, and how best to keep the blue haired troll supplied with cake and meth.
Well.....the only desktop that matters to me is MY desktop. Fedora 22/XFCE is perfectly fine here (two machines), and for traveling my netbook is wonderful on PClinuxOS/MATE.
....and this sort of arrangement has been fine for me since Red Hat's retail edition version 5.2....that was in 1999.
What's the argument about?
Of course my use of Linux on the desktop is not unexpected. I am a computer tech, and using Linux is not unusual for computer techs.
What gets me recently is the other people I know who are using Linux.
My brother, who is not interested in computers beyond using them as a means to do what he wants, asked me to replace Windows 8.1 with Linux on a low cost laptop he had bought a year earlier. He still has another machine with Windows 8.1. However, he had used machines that were more than six years old at my house running Linux and he said they ran faster than any computer at his house. His year old machine was indeed painfully slow, partly due to the low hardware specs (not really enough for a modern Windows) and partly to do with the shovelware included in the installation. I switched it over to Linux and he is much happier with it. I sometimes ask him how it is working because since I switched it over, he never brings it up, but he says that it is working fine.
I also installed Linux on a laptop for a woman I know who didn't want to have to deal with the after effects of malware that had infected her computer (that is, the computer didn't work right even after the malware had been removed). She says that she doesn't mind having to learn some new ways of doing things because at least she doesn't have as many problems with the laptop. It's funny, but the new ways of doing things are mostly about using Google Play rather than iTunes.
I've also given away written off laptops (always more than five years old, generally six to eight) with fresh Linux installations to nephews and nieces, and they have little trouble picking up Linux (kids are flexible). They're happy to have the machines available.