Forbes: Is Linux For Losers
on June 19 07:59 pm Tim Smith
His main problem seems to be the development model and the fact that Linux is immensely more popular the any of the other nixes.
"It's terrible," De Raadt says. "Everyone is using it, and they don't realize how bad it is. And the Linux people will just stick with it and add to it rather than stepping back and saying, 'This is garbage and we should fix it.'"
"These companies used to have to pay to develop Unix. They had in-house engineers who wrote new features when customers wanted them. Now they just allow the user community to do their own little hacks and features, trying to get to the same functionality level, and they're just putting pennies into it,"
"Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run."
"Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. We do what we do because we love Unix,"
"They have the same rapid development cycle, which leads to crap,"
Ha also had this to say in another article:
Q. Could OpenBSD become a home-user and desktop operating system? A. If it cannot, then Linux cannot either.
snips Take a look at a Windows .EXE file in a hex editor sometime. What's the first thing you...
Q. Do you like GNU-Linux ? Yes-No, why? Do you use it sometimes? A. I have never used it.
Theo de Raadt 2 Giugio 2005
begin Error Log for Fri, 17 Jun 2005 18:50:42 -0400 - dfs You're the fscking liar and...
Consider a text editor, editing file "foo". When you write out your changes, it might do it this way: 1. write out a new file, "foo.tmp". 2...
"You know what I found? Right in the kernel, in the heart of the operating system, I found a developer's comment that said, 'Does this belong here?' "Lok says. "What kind of confidence does that inspire? Right then I knew it was time to switch."
Actually if I was your manager and you came to me with an excuse like that I would switch you if you can only judge the quality of the code based on some programmers comments. Do the FreeBSD crowd now have to switch because of comments like these.
* love doesn't really belong here I guess... * This doesn't really belong here, but I can't think of a better * love doesn't really belong here I guess... * love FIXME: probably does not belong here * love FIXME: probably does not belong here * love FIXME this does not belong here * love these don't really belong here; but for now they're
Or how about this one `!seineew era sreenigne epacsten!' buried in Microsoft NT of all places. Actually programmers are notorious for their commenting. Take this from OpenSolaris that escaped the audit before it was released to the public domain.
I understand this perfectly well. Just like .zip files begin with "PK, .gif files begin with "GIF87a" and so forth. But when I read one...
77 declaration int kva2str(kvat *kva, char *buf, int buflen, char *butt, 104 declaration kvat *str2kva(char *s, char *butt, char *del)
133 butt == NULL
BST.java 319 Debug.info("HELP: Looking for butt"); 320 result = result.findtree("butt", false); 321 result.traversefind("butt"); 342 $str = "Camel butt came-x{301}l CAMEL horse cAm-0E-0L...";
924 * This bit me in the butt a couple of times, so lets toss this 397* Use bfreelist.bbcount as a weird-butt heuristic *
49 #undef P0WA* that poo not done here! *
10* 11 * Then he heard Merry change the note, and up went the Horn-cry of Buckland, 12 * shaking the air. 13 * 14 * Awake! Awake! Fear, Fire, Foes! Awake! 15 * Fire, Foes! Awake! 16 *
Finally there are 191 doesn't belong(s) in OpenSolaris.
DFS the proven liar Tidying up after Linux
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