On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Brian Chabot wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
>
> > No, it's that what they sold is garbage, their support sucks, and they have
> > yet to actually innovate *ANYTHING*. Rather, they steal ideas, products,
> > code, force competition out of the market with bullying tactics, etc. that we
> > don't agree with. They've set computer science back about 10+ years, they've
> > cost millions of dollars of loss or damage to companies through their pathetic
> > OS and application design, and when confronted with it, they deny it's their
> > fault.
>
> 90% of what you said is true. The pathetic OS is only half-pathetic,
> IMO. The HW support and multimedia capabilities aren't that bad, or at
> least wouldn't be if they were stable.
That's the key right there... It ISN'T stable.
> Those are the only reasons I
> still run windoze... the USB support in Linux is incomplete,
Take a look at the 2.4.0-test2 kernel... USB is coming to linux in a big
way very very soon.
> the video files I have are choppy at best,
Check out the mtv mpeg player... I can dig up a link if you can't find it.
> and DVD support is still minimal...
Well, you have MPAA to thank for that. But it's coming... I recently
heard that there was a commercial player for Linux being released. It may
be out now, I don't know. Free support is realistically a ways off,
because the MPAA sucks.
--
Derek Martin
System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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