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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Will try that, but I have an answer to your question, a long and precious one. Quintessentially, and to echo my "philoso" bit above (long long rant ahead, and a worthy read at that) : Unix, as the name says, IS and has always been a milestone in the development of OS's, and IS the core of the future of OS's. Wether you and I like it or not, and at least for the couple of centuries to come. Why so? We all live in reality, wether we like it or not. But what is reality? Only way to tell is by measuring - individual perception is not enough, some mistake their wife for a hat (true story of a curious mental disorder, some guy...). How do we measure? Perception can be biased, many perceptions together are less biased. Science is the only REAL tool, and it's a tool, not a placeholder for the ultimate truth, merely a method : [i]experiment must be applied to validate the theory.[/i] So, sorry for my creationist friends : evolution happens all the time, and elicits the fittest individual - and this is measured by way too many people in way too many contexts to be considered obsolete. If the name of "Darwin" makes you itch, go visit the flying spaghetti monster right now - do not read ahead. Unix, now alive for 40 years, portable on many different hardware platforms, flexible enough to be tailored to very different needs, and robust and stable enough to support massive applications (like web servers, and many other types of large scale applications), has proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, that it is the fittest in the world of OS's. Compare a 40 year lifespan and the wide variety of platforms able to run it, to the Windows lifespan, already reaching a dead end : Windows was something at some point. But it's best qualities are being emulated and beaten by the competition : OS X based interfaces are a delight (Ipod touch, Leopard, Iphone...). Beryl graphic hardware compositing beats Aero anytime in performances and quality, requiring less powerful hardware!!! Server side? Compare Oracle to MS SQL for one. IIS has become better, but still, Unix based web servers are more widely spread. Everything server is more stable in a Unix environment. ... Wether you like it or not, evolution of technology is weeding Windows out, while Unix and the derivatives remain. Windows is said to occupy the "evolutionary niche" of good desktop environments, but look above : XP and Win2k ahead of Vista? Oops. BIG TIME Oops from Redmond, they got it wrong. Even the now famous commercial practices of Bill Gates have been emulated, very cleverly, by the competition - he did bring something : corporate processes wise, marketting wise, he definitely did. At the same time, his approach was flawed from the start, because it was based so much on "time to market" and marketting that at some point... His company forgot to respect reality : they sold something as what it was not (revolutionary Windows? Who mentionned Amiga OS as containing that YEARS BEFORE Windows?), and it backfired. Took time to backfire, but it did. Just like a lie will backfire in all possible circumstancies - what goes around ALWAYS comes around in a form or another. ... We all are fans of computer science, and as much as we respect it, natural trends, dictated by the principles of evolution, are tending to make information science evolve to absorb the benefits of Windows, and graft them to more robust structures that where there before : a Unix kind of kernel keeps dominating no matter what, and offering flavors that suit the end user needs. ... But there is more to it : there is more to "Unix", there is something that is in the name and was there when it has been engineered back in the 60's. Couple of hints : - information tends to be free - how does science define a living being? - what is happenning in the world today? Which CRUCIAL societal changes can we observe? Take these from your favorite Alien Life Form ,) I do have a point, but you have to think it to get to believe it. Loading...
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