SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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 Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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Great Link, I especially liked this:
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Free distributions are the "genuine", "authentic" distributions delivered by Open Source programmers. They are free and meant to deliver functionalities that mankind in general has yet to perceive as necessary. As a tradition of Open Source programming, every useful feature in a free distribution of Linux must be configured with at least one configuration file (since Linux still doesn't support the more professional approach of saving your options into a few obscure binary files). This results in such a delightful server application as "Ubuntu Server" that none of its users can miss out in the joy of writing fifty or a hundred odd lines of gibberish simply to get an SMB or LDAP service to work. In addition, all free distributions must also come with sophisticated implementations of software programs such as "fetchmail" so to conform to the path of Open Source and leave "average" users in awe thinking how utterly useless these implementations are. Some other distinguishing features of Open Source Linux distributions are:
* It is not Windows, and therefore it allows users be more "1337 [sic]" than those Windows sheep.
* It has an impressive graphical interface far superior to MS-DOS.
* Linux runs on everything. On an abacus. On a dead badger. Even on Windows (though why one would want to...).
* Descriptive program names such as "fsck", "mutt", "biff", "man pump", "pornview", and "Greasemonkey".
* Let users utilize any program, free of charge - except ones that might actually be worth paying for.
* When programming with Linux, there are no longer simply 0 and 1 (binary). Linux enables the use of "2" (ternary). Rumor has it there is even a "3" in development.
* Installing programs has been made much easier on Linux, with standalone software only taking the minuscule amount of twenty decades to install (this include a whole host of dependency files adding even more useful functionality). Unlike Windows software, Linux software can be fully and conveniently configured to every user's specific taste in a matter of two months or so.
* It is not Windows. |
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