10 Years of Pushing For Linux — and Giving Up 857
boyko.at.netqos writes "Jim Sampson at Network Performance Daily writes about his attempts over a decade to get Linux working in a business/enterprise environment, but each time, he says, something critical just didn't work, and eventually, he just gave up. The article caps with his attempts to use Ubuntu Edgy Eft — only to find a bug that still prevented him from doing work." Quoting: "For the next ten years, I would go off and on back to this thought: I wanted to support the Open Source community, and to use Linux, but every time, the reality was that Linux just was not ready... Over the last six years, I've tried periodically to get Linux working in the enterprise, thinking, logically, that things must have improved. But every time, something — sometimes something very basic — prevented me from doing what I needed to do in Linux."
Try Vista! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Linux is Inhibited by Greed (Score:5, Funny)
Especially if it's software that enables random people to schedule them into time-wasting meetings at a click of a button.
Re:Linux is Inhibited by Greed (Score:5, Funny)
10+ Years of Pushing for Windows (Score:1, Funny)
I've always wanted to be able to use Windows to get something productive done, so I've tried different versions: 95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000, and XP. With each one they claim more ease of use, better tools, and tighter security. Most of them have even made incremental progress over time (ignoring Me here).
And lately I've heard about Vista as the next big thing in Windows.
But from what I hear it still won't work very well!
Windows is incapable of mounting my ext2 partitions out of the box. Even trying to load them up requires 3rd party software.
Installing new programs is a real pain! I don't have time to keep track of 50 CDs and keep loading them in and out. I thought I paid for broadband so I could avoid that kind of sneakernet tedium. And the same goes with hardware!
And what kind of operating system doesn't install basic tools? How am I going to get any work done without grep and find? Why do I need to install 3rd party software to use
I could never even get my programs to respond to DCOP!
And even if I did find a program I liked, I couldn't find a way to recompile it from source to be optimized for my system!
The worst part is that all this third party software you need to even run a functional machine gets rather expensive.
So after more than 10 years of trying to make it work, I'm giving up on windows. At least until Vista Service Pack 1.
"I was once a true believer in Evolution" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Linux is Inhibited by Greed (Score:4, Funny)
I never thought of it that way before...always just swore at it and shut it off...
Just Like Outlook.
who knew.
be careful what you wish for, huh?
Re:You're saying basically what the original post (Score:5, Funny)
Wait until you try Linux on SAN (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Linux is Inhibited by Greed (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Linux is Inhibited by Greed (Score:1, Funny)
Very very frightening me!
Re:Linux is Inhibited by Greed (Score:1, Funny)
Galileo Figaro
(magnificoooo)
Re:Linux is Inhibited by Greed (Score:1, Funny)
Open Source groupies!?? Is there a website?
Re:Linux is Inhibited by Greed (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Linux is Inhibited by Greed (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Replacing the Office suite with OOo and Evoluti (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Linux is Inhibited by Greed (Score:2, Funny)
He doesn't handle Bcc though, he has religious objections to it. He believes it to be a tool of schemers, quite rightly in my opinion. Same with FYI emails.
More articles this Jim Sampson could write (Score:2, Funny)
- Every time I tried it out for the past 10 years, Schwinn had never built a better snow plow. And further, the schrader valves on the bicycle never got more compatible with my presta air pump. Certainly not ready for prime-time.
- I started and ran my own small business. I wanted to do all of my office work with a hedge trimmer. But working with my primary customer required me to fax documents, and I couldn't get the hedge trimmer to fax documents to my customer. I went out of business because of the hedge trimmer, and I don't think hedge trimmers are ready for use by businesses.
- I was an executive chef at McDonald's and I really wanted to learn how to cook sashimi. Everybody kept talking about it, and how it could go mainstream, so I wanted to find a way to integrate it into the dollar menu. But every time I tried to cook sashimi, it came out as something else. I finally gave up trying to cook sashimi and I don't think sashimi is ready for use in serious restaurants yet. Maybe in a couple more years I will try to cook sashimi again, and hopefully for sashimi I will have more luck next time.
- I wanted to drive my F1 racer to work on the highway. I really wanted to support the F1 world and all that. So 10 years ago I tried for the first time, but the police wouldn't let me (once they caught me, when I ran out of fuel). I ended up selling that car and purchasing a Geo Metro. But just recently, I thought I'd try again, with one of the newer snazzier cars from McLaren. The cops still wouldn't let me drive on the highway. Maybe if I give McLaren's F1 team another two years they'll be up to par with the ford fiesta that I currently own. After all, 99.99% of people drive on public roads and 99.99% of roads are public. So I really can't see how any enterprise could use an F1 car until such cars are made perfectly compatible with public roads.