For an overall very interesting and wonderful job I do at the moment I have to go back to Linux as my desktop environment. Now, every fierce fight among geeks about the usability of operating systems that involves Mac OS X bascically boils down to someone eventually mumbling "... but it's only got ONE MOUSE-BUTTON!". Well, to tell the truth, I couldn't care less. As a matter of fact I'm just so much more productive using this one-button environment than I'm on Linux.
I actually have a soft spot for Linux somewhere in my heart (although I feel much more at home on a NetBSD system). It's free, it's geeky, it's not Microsoft, what's not to love? I also have to admit that I've not been using Linux on my desktop for quite some time now, so I might miss some part of the magic: as a co-worker remarked when he saw me doing my kernel configuration with the console-based "make config": "It's been quite a while since you last used Linux, eh?". Heck, I didn't even know they had a working curses front-end now. He even mentioned a GTK kernel configurator. Pah, kids these days, they have it too easy...
But although Linux has matured quite remarkably (and VMWare has become extremely nifty), it's still plain ugly when it comes to the desktop. Note that I'm desktop-agnostic: I'd use both KDE or Gnome, but both still just don't cut it. I've lost count how many times I cursed out loud due to the absence of Mac OS X's wonderful Exposé feature. I can happily live without multi-buttoned mice and virtual desktops any day, as long as I have Exposé. Oh, and Aqua. And the iApps. And SubEthaEdit. And working hardware detection. And a delicious BSD system underneath it all....
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Linux is an operating system that was initially created as a hobby by a young student, Linus Torvalds, at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Linus had an interest in Minix, a small UNIX system, and decided to develop a system that exceeded the Minix standards. He began his work in 1991 when he released version 0.02 and worked steadily until 1994 when version 1.0 of the Linux Kernel was released. The kernel, at the heart of all Linux systems, is developed and released under the GNU General Public License and its source code is freely available to everyone. It is this kernel that forms the base around which a Linux operating system is developed. There are now literally hundreds of companies and organizations and an equal number of individuals that have released their own versions of operating systems based on the Linux kernel.
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