On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 04:36:46PM -0700, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > > On 02/24/2014 04:27 PM, Russell Standish wrote: > >Not necessarily. Sometimes Linux on Windows is better, which I > >have done occasionally. > Anyway, Apple hardware uses UEFI too, so it's a non-argument to > blame Microsoft for advocating that firmware standards should > progress.
Absolutely. Its a problem all of us face in the IT industry. An example from the Linux world is the move to systemd. Systemd actually looks like a pretty neat piece of technology, and solves a number of problems with the crufty old SysV rc.d structure, but a) It is very poorly documented b) It should have a facility where you can just chuck a shell script, or add some shell commans to be run at startup or shutdown, rc.local style. The net effect is that it takes an inordinate amount of time to do something extraordinarily simple. All "vendors" have this problem, both OSS and commercial. > And the SteamOS game platform (which is Debian) initially needed > UEFI to run too. > > Darned old-timers! > Yes - some of us actually have stuff to do, rather than spend time relearning how to do the same things we used to be able to do :). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
