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That's a straw man. All features should be weighed against each other. Priorities and engineering choices should consider all potential Linux users, not just
by bickfordb 14y ago
That's a straw man. All features should be weighed against each other. Priorities and engineering choices should consider all potential Linux users, not just the current most vocal-crustiest.
For instance, I personally prefer lower latency and ease of programming over network transparency. Your bottom might be my top ;)
- agwa 14y agoThat's fair and I agree with you that features need to be weighed against each other. But I really don't think a feature's presence or absence in another operating system should have much weight in a discussion about Linux. Nor would I assume that because another system made a feature tradeoff it's the right tradeoff, either in general or for Linux specifically.
- malkia 14y agoFor example I wish Windows exposed it's fork()-ing mechanism in the Win32 API. Not sure why they didn't. It makes things much simpler.