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Linux in "Ha'eer"
Hi.
In this Friday's Ha'eer (comes with Ha'arez) on page 82 there is a little
info. article about Linux (labeled "To Bill, with love" with a little
picture of Tux (that's how I noticed it was worth reading...)) by Shaul
Bezer.
It begins with the description of how Linux started by Linus, why is the
name, that it runs on almost any architecture you pick (I don't think
that there is a port for SGI machines, also he said there is), that it is
more stable and faster then the rest of the OS around, and that it comes
with the source code (It is said that for that reason (being OSS/GPLed
whatever you call it) it is a treat for MS)
It also has some FUD in it (but every good article about Linux has some of
it :))
1. Only heavy users can use it since it doesn't have GUIs.
2. Since there is no company that is responsible you can only get support
from newsgroups and mailing lists (the term he used was "Kvuzot Diun
Ba-internet")
3. That only recently there are some tries to make the system more user
friendly by creating GUIs, and some of the heavy users don't like it (I
know I prefer the command line, and can't read lots of text from a GUI, but
I can't say I'm opposed to the ideas of GUIs -- I do use Netscape, and
like the syntax coloring of emacs (though jed does the same thing on the
console))
It conclude by saying that if Linux is more user friendly, and cost as low
as now, it will be very popular, and hurt MS. That even if your computer
will never run it, it will make sure that other OSes will be cheaper and of
better quality. He also mentions that for many people Linux symbolies the
victory of the internet community over opposition of the corporations.
At the end he gives the URL of the Linux homepage (www.linux.org)
Well, I think that it is a positive article overall, and we should be
quite happy.
Liran.
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