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bigg

Dec 06, 2008
9:08 AM EST
Quoting:For one thing, for everyday folks, Linux is still a pain in the butt to use, its user interface still showing too much of its geek roots.


That's a lie. Plain and simple. No need to even debate the point - it's just a flat-out lie.
jacog

Dec 06, 2008
10:56 AM EST 		Also referring to "it's [Linux] user interface" is a bizarre thing to say.

What IS Linux's user interface exactly?
azerthoth

Dec 06, 2008
12:13 PM EST 		oops, wrong thread
jezuch

Dec 06, 2008
3:13 PM EST
Quoting:What IS Linux's user interface exactly?


System calls? Well, yeah, it's an interface straight from the '70's, might be kinda "showing too much of its geek roots"...
tracyanne

Dec 06, 2008
4:28 PM EST 		Other than that, horrendously wrong statement, the article was quite interesting, It was mostly about using a virtual machine to provide security for the client OS. My real reservation is that the VM kernel appears, to me, to be proprietary, and is, therefore, it selfe protected by obscurity, and we know how well that works.

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