Linux dead at hands of Windows 7? Horse puckey!
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 29.1.2009
Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversTo listen to my fellow bloggers, Robin Harris and Michael Krigsman, you would think that it’s all over for desktop Linux, with the OS once again being relegated to the server room while Windows 7 is the be all to end all of desktop operating systems. To that I say, baloney!
I don’t just say this as a fanboy. I use Linux, Mac, XP, and Vista, and I’m downloading Windows 7 beta as we speak. Even in my post yesterday, I noted that there was a compelling body of software that already exists in Windows and emerging around the Windows-based Classmate. That being said, a huge body of software exists for desktop Linux, most of which is free (we like free things in education) and OS X is hardly hurting for software (educational and otherwise).
Mostly, though, I say it because utility computing is going to become a hell of a lot more important than the latest features from Microsoft, Canonical, or Apple. Can it get us online, get us into the cloud, and play our multimedia files?
If somebody wrote a post telling me that the desktop OS was dead at the hands of Google, I’d say not yet, but maybe sooner than we think. But to say that Windows 7, just because it can run faster than Vista on a netbook, has effectively killed desktop Linux just doesn’t make sense.
The students and teachers I support can do virtually anything they need to do on any desktop OS I hand them. I have all of our mission-critical software running under Wine and all have Windows and OS X clients. For a long time, there will be applications (a multimedia lab, for example) where it makes sense to pick an OS that runs the most software in the most stable manner possible. However, there will be many more places where cheap netbooks, thin clients, or even ultra-cheap desktops will make as much, if not more sense.
Whether those devices run Linux or some flavor of Windows won’t really matter, as long as the OS of choice is stable, secure, and fast. Maybe Windows 7 will fill the bill, but I think it’s pretty safe to say that a lot of *nix software will do the same.
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Comments(5)
writing posts like this will wake up all the windows trolls. i was also using windows (at
least until i stopped playing games at all) and found myself using linux, i can't say it
was more stable (but hey applications make windows or linux not stable not the os itself
where linux is really just a kernel and the rest are apps while windows is also a bunch of
apps but they are feeling more integrated). when i started using vista for the first time
it wasn't good, simple tasks were very difficult to accomplish (buggy, freezing etc. ) we
all know that, while with linux i also had many problems but in most cases it was just a
matter of my knowledge (or lack of it). it's always difficult to learn something new when
you got used to something else. right now i chose linux not because it's better (both
windows and linux have their advantages) but for the "message" being free, you don't
see this in windows world, most apps have to be paid for while in linux world you will
always find an alternative to windows apps and as a bonus they are free (so don't be
afraid of police rushing into your house and accusing you of using pirated software :d ).
peace to you all, be that windows or linux users.
p.s. keep your minds open...
windows will always rule.
free software does not mean it is necessarily better.
ms office will always conquer the work place.
ms windows will always conquer desktop
pcs.
its pretty much a numbers game.
and people generally prefer windows
anyway.
linux will never fit in.
windows 7 is awesome so far.
i say
*nix can stay in the server room!!
how sad that an educator inflicts his alternate, preferences on his students, because he
can.
he admits that he has not even tried 7 yet he appears to be pushing an alternate
operating system that mainstream society is not interested in foc. its a shame these self
indulgent jerks can't be weeded out of the education system, fo rthe good of the students
. what a wanker!!
shiv179: windows server is really great. i haven't tried windows 7 server but i have
been using windows server 2008 and it's really great, even better than linux servers
back 1996 in i had a teacher at university that insisted that top speed modula (what the
hell is that i hear) was the future of programming and forced us to learn it above c and
other languages. it was all a waste of time since it never took off.
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Playing with fire
By Bender on 29.01.2009 - 00:01