He was kind to CVS and SVN. Far too kind. That shit needs to be drug out back and shot.

Unlike Linus, Guido is stupid.

Very few attacks(include Rootkits) involve the bootloader. Locking down the boot loader does jack shit to protect against OS and user level exploits.

Microsoft is the one forcing OEM's to sell locked down machines. You must have a doctorate in hair-splitting.

I am still working to get the coveted and rare 5 Troll mod.

As a programmer that uses Ruby quite often, saying Ruby runs on Windows is true but misleading.

There are so many Rubygems that won't even compile(if they have part written in C) or run on Windows. Even if you install Cygwin.

Similar story for most non-MS programming languages.

Windows is just a subpar development platform.

It means that the public facing API's rarely change and when they need to you get two years warning minimum. Is that hard to understand?

There are lots of Linux programs written 18 years ago that will still compile and run flawlessly.

How many Win95 apps run of 7 or 8?

It is Windows that often breaks shit from version to version.

You truly are retarded.

" does Android run Torvalds kernels? NO"

Not that we needed more proof but this shows how fucking retarded you are.

You are telling me that Google built their own Linux clone?

Fucking retard.

I am pretty sure XP SP3 came out around or a little after 2006...

Holy fucking shit, you are one stupid motherfucker. You give your fellow shill Mr. Dee from Cnet a run for his money.

No no no!

Driver issues on Windows is the fault of the HW manufacturer.

Only when the driver issue is on a Linux system is it the fault of the OS.

It is on page 17 of the MS Shill Handbook. Just ask Hairyfeet

Since Linux is running the world, you should consider the fact that it is you that is incompetent, and not the Linux devs.

Of course, you are just a rabid MS shill that starts frothing at the mouth every time a good story about Linux shows up and not capable of introspection.

Like Ballmer you are a monkey who loves to throw his shit a little too much.

You are an amazing concern troll.

Hate to clue you in but Linux runs the world.

The reason you struggle outside MS's wall is that living under Microsoft's thumb makes you stupid. Well, more dumb than you were before, in your case.

"Programmers" that drink from the MS firehose are completely worthless if they step even an inch past the MS approved boundaries.

"Admins" that use nothing but MS crap are equally inept.

Every distro has failed? What the fuck? You do realize that there are plenty of older machines that run Linux for years without issue right?

Unless you have tested every distro for 5 years you are talking out of your ass.

My machine has been running opensuse since 2007 with zero drive wipes, just straight up point the repos to the new URL's and zypper dup. So there ya go six years and counting.

Meanwhile my Windows 7 box slows down every year and last week Microsoft's check disc utility destroyed ntfs "security" descriptors making the system unusable. Of course, all Windows systems slowly rot due to the stupid idea of the registry

Keep sucking on the Ballmer cock, it makes for some hilariously stupid posts from you.

What exactly is "modern" about 8's shitastic interface?

Calling it modern points you out as a MS shill spewing talking points.

Metro or whatever they are calling that bullshit is not new in the slightest. It is an old interface style long discarded because it sucks shit.

Only if they are stupid. Business are not moving and will not move to 8, not ever. MS's tablet experiment can be put in the epic fail column and Windows Phone is yet again a failure. If MS wants to hold on to its only cash source, they will make Windows 9 business friendly.

"La la la I'm not listening"

That is you when you claim Android isn't Linux.

"Building on the contributions of the open-source Linux community and more than 300 hardware, software, and carrier partners, Android has rapidly become the fastest-growing mobile OS." http://developer.android.com/about/index.html

"Android consists of a kernel based on Linux kernel version 2.6 and, from Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich onwards, version 3.x" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#Linux

Pull your head out of Ballmers ass and read this http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/11/14/What-Android-Is

In my distro I can rollback drivers and any app with a simple button click at least one version, sometimes 4-5 versions back if I need it. Try that with Windows.

You keep repeating crap that no one else experiences, maybe it is just you? You will feel better if you come to terms with your low IQ, seriously.