My Professor Says Linux Sucks and Is Not Real Unix

I am a 2nd year CS xover student who is new to programming and the topic of Linux came up in clbutt today because we are using Solaris and one student wanted to know if he could use open source tools for his buttignments. We had a lengthy, if often spirited discussion over the plus and minus of Linux. My prof says that Linux is far too fragmented and that is what is holding it back along with a bad reputation for user unfriendliness and a total lack of shrinkwrap. In addition he says Linux is not Unix but a poor hack and that IBM is in the process of re-writing much of the core Linux kernel with the idea that they will be marketing their own version of Linux. My prof is certainly no Windows lover (we use mostly Macs running OSX except in clbuttes like this where we use Sun machines), but he warned us against using an operating system that is dying on the vine as a desktop alternative to Windows. We are all looking forward to Apple and Intel hardware because maybe we will now have the best of both worlds. An operating system that is solid, user friendly and inexpensive hardware. My prof's favorite saying is "Linux is free but yet Windows still has 98 percent of the market".

Maybe 2005 is the year of Linux? Wasn't 2004 supposed to be the year of Linux? Or maybe that was 2003? How about 2012?

Luna Lane