- I attended my first LUG Meet yesterday. There was a demo on Eclipse
from some heads from IBM -"Open Source" is the basis of "ON Demand" business, which made absolutely no sense to me. In the QnA that ensued, someone popped a q asking if their pluggable architect. mimics emacs. The IBM guy apparently did not know his Open source that well and he popped the magic question 'Is emacs open source?' (uproar-jeering-chaos for someone who sure is not coming back for an encore). Linux in India lacks general awareness.
Many IBMers who speak and give presentations don't know a thing about what they're talking. And you might want to re-phrase you last sentence to "People in India lack general..."
- The PDF Viewer crashed twice right there in the session. So it's not
as if Linux apps don't crash.
Oh they do... but they take everything down with them. I was attending this demo in my past-life where some MS executives were showed how SQLServer integrates tightly with WindowsNT. No marks for guessing what happened to WindowsNT when SQLServer crashed.
- My windowsXP boots faster than SUSE 9.1. This could be another area
for Linux to improve on for laptop users.
Perhaps... you need to start lesser services at boot time by disabling any you don't need.
- Maybe I'm too stupid to use Linux (or MS turned my brain to mush),
but I'd prefer a single installation file that works out of the box rather than zips that go "Segmentation fault" when I try to run the app. It does not matter whether I have Linux source, I wouldn't know how to fix it. This is one area where I feel Windows scores in rakin in the people.
Geeez! Should we say you are unaware or simply a masochist?
- Linux scores in the 'under the hood' department but is still yet to
reach 'prime time' status.
Wrong statement. Learn first.
If there's some fine print that I missed, 'LUG Members need to be anti-MS zero-tolerance holier-than-thou fanatics', I'll be glad to step out; just let me know. Repeating a favourite quote 'The only reason that I can see this far is because I'm standing on the shoulders of giants'.
Instead of bashing windows left and right, recognize the good aspects and take it to the next level. As a user, I don't care as to what goes on/runs underneath.. as long as it does what it supposed to do. no more no less.
If you are just interested in getting your work done without wondering about the "how", boss, you are seriously treading the wrong turf.
Regards,
ah