[Ilugc] Re: Another storm (XXX and Sex Education)
- From: lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Chandrashekar Babu)
- Date: Fri Nov 26 16:14:02 2004
Sriram Krishnan writes:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Biculturalism.html
While largely the article was nice, the author perhaps has no idea about
UNIX-like operating systems in use today. For the rest part, the article
sounds somewhat biased. The following quote was from his article:
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|The cultural schism is so sharp that Unix has never really made any inroads
|on the desktop.
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Perhaps the author hasn't heard much about Mac OSX, nor would he
have chanced upon Xandros, Ubuntu, SuSE or Mandrake desktops that are in
existence today. The days when UNIX-like operating systems were all
command-line and user-unfriendly have long gone.
Linux especially has become more user-friendly that even my 7 year old
nephew has been using them for the last 1 year to play games, watch
his favourite cartoons and play music. All I had to teach him was about how
to use the mouse and to use windows/buttons/folder/menus and some basic
apps. And he's not alone... in fact a lot of his friends (aged
almost the same) have been using Linux at their home. If the kids could
use Linux, there's no reason how other newbies would face problems.
Its not whether "Linux is ready for desktop" anymore... Linux is ON many
desktops already ;-)
Same holds true for other UNIX-like operating systems such as Mac OSX or
even FreeBSD.
Cheers,
Chandrashekar Babu.
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