Does Linux "Fail To Think Across Layers?"

John Siracusa writes a brief article at Ars Technica pointing out an exchange between Andrew Morton, a lead developer of the Linux kernel, and a ZFS developer. Morton accused ZFS of being a "rampant layering violation." Siracusa states that this attitude of refusing to think holistically ("across layers") is responsible for all of the current failings of Linux — desktop adoption, user-friendliness, consumer software, and gaming. ZFS is effective because it crosses the lines set by conventional wisdom. Siracusa ultimately believes that the ability to achieve such a break is more likely to emerge within an authoritative, top-down organization than from a grass-roots, fractious community such as Linux.

Re:Hey!

[ZSO]

Please remove yourself from the internet.

CCCP...

[Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet Russia, Layers think of Linux!

Re:Linux isn't successful on the desktop because

[Cid Highwind]

6. "Top N reasons why Linux sucks" lists posted anonymously on the web by people who haven't touched a Linux machine since 2001.

Thank God

[Tony]

They use C, a language from the same period, not C++.

Thank God for that. C++ is an abomination. It's not good at OO, it's not strictly procedural. Hell, it's not even clean.

They use an interface that literally emulates an ancient teletype.

Hey! Don't talk about GNOME like that!

Re:Total bullshit

[jd]

Ok, ok! So Linux supports OpenGL, OpenAL, OpenEXR, JPEG-2000, Open Inventor, the Renderman scene language and shaders, DirectX under WINE, Constructive Solid Geometry, Sound Fonts, 5.1 audio, audio raytracing, speech synthesis, efficient use of multi-core CPUs, real-time process scheduling and asynchronous I/O, but... What have the Romans ever done for us?

Re:Total bullshit

[Fred_A]

Ex:OS A has 20 cool games,and 100 Useful apps,
OS B has 100 Cool games,and 2000 Useful apps.
Which one you choose? Suppose that both properly configured and run smoothly.

Neither, I'd stick with Linux thank you very much !