Comment Linux as a Base for Research. (Score 1) 394
I tond to agree with many a thing sad in the article. But what seems to be missing is that in the Micrsoft only world the research is done by Microsoft for Microsoft. The fact is Microsoft has an enourmous research lab and half the research that would have made a big difference never made it into a product "bean counters".
What is imoprtant to remember in the linux world is that the base system is alread there. It's open it's available. When doing research on new way of impelementing speading up optimizing. The biggest problem is to first build a system that you can do your research on eg. Issolate and meassure.
Although many of the thing in the Linux kernel is not novell some are. The important thing here is that a researcher has base to work from replacing parts of the system with better ways of doing things even meassuring different way to do eg. Scheduling by just adding and removing different models.
Linux allows for this not just in the Kernel but in things like GUI design.
This sounds stupid but this one of the main advantages I see in Linux. As far as NT and inovation goes. The ideas might be good but the implementation seem to be a bit lacking.
Linux in terms of kernel is still young. But it's growing fast. Linux have been playing catch up for some time now. Once it's past that stage I think that the inovation (which can be seen in some product already) will start to came fast.
Free Software is unfortunatelly the only way to kick start the Software industry.
What is imoprtant to remember in the linux world is that the base system is alread there. It's open it's available. When doing research on new way of impelementing speading up optimizing. The biggest problem is to first build a system that you can do your research on eg. Issolate and meassure.
Although many of the thing in the Linux kernel is not novell some are. The important thing here is that a researcher has base to work from replacing parts of the system with better ways of doing things even meassuring different way to do eg. Scheduling by just adding and removing different models.
Linux allows for this not just in the Kernel but in things like GUI design.
This sounds stupid but this one of the main advantages I see in Linux. As far as NT and inovation goes. The ideas might be good but the implementation seem to be a bit lacking.
Linux in terms of kernel is still young. But it's growing fast. Linux have been playing catch up for some time now. Once it's past that stage I think that the inovation (which can be seen in some product already) will start to came fast.
Free Software is unfortunatelly the only way to kick start the Software industry.
