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What CAN’T Linux do?

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 5 comments
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A few weeks ago a colleague of mine sent me a link to a story about a man who clustered together sixteen Playstation 3s using Linux to simulate black holes. I had forgotten about this until yesterday when I was thinking “What can’t Linux do?” I know, I know, you’re thinking: Alright fanboy, bring on your dogma. Not so. This isn’t one of those pie in the sky, wishful thinking blog entries where I am going to go on to spout that Linux will, in fact: Cure cancer, solve global warming, fix the US economic crisis, and release the world from its dependency on oil (Although it might help in those arenas.)

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Comments (5)

I was going to post that.

tracyanne ·
I found it at lunch time and had the article open in Firefox, and when I finally get a chance Scott's beaten me to it.
gus3 ·
Don't feel bad, tracyanne. After all, only the best could beat you. ;-)
tracyanne ·
I now feel very smug.
Scott_Ruecker ·
I am sorry Tracy, from now on I will confer with you before posting anything...

;-)

Actually, Sander does it to me all the time, so I know how you feel.

The only thing that Linux really can't do very well

dinotrac ·
that matters much is run Windows software, and even that's not a total washout.

Desktop Linux has two major problems, neither of which is a Linux problem per se:

1. Lots of people have Windows programs that are attached to for one thing or another, and

2. Just not enough Linux-savvy, user-savvy, good communicators around for moral and technical support.

More of 2 would go a long way towards fixing 1. WINE is doing more and more towards 1. More and more software is available on both, which also addresses 1.

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