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"just fine" isn't perfectly true. The bionic interface they somehow "wash" from GPL headers to BSD headers is questionable.
Nope, there is nothing questionable about it. Linus himself has stated it: http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20110322014831...
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If we combine BSD and Linux, it's actually not so bad. * Globally, Android pretty much owns the mobile market. Android is a Linux. * Most servers run some flavour of Linux or BSD. * Although Windows still dominates the desktop market, a healthy share of the laptop market belongs to OS X, which is (partially) based on BSD. This isn't exactly how the Open Source crowd envisioned "Linux on the desktop", but if the goal…
So while Linux users can feel happy that Android is Linux under the covers, really, the real reason it is so popular is that it's so different from Linux. For an average user, thankfully it doesn't have any traits of Linux. Like, when I install Android on my machine, I don't have to go and manually edit the xorg.conf file so that the machine knows my monitor can take 1280 x 800 resolution and not just 640 by 480, aft…
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> There is no Windows equivalent to epoll/kqueue There is: Overlapped IO: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms68... > But if you bring this up to most Windows people they tell you to use IO completion ports, which are totally different and require the core of the program to be redesigned IO completion ports and epoll both require the programs flow logic to be designed for them. If a program has…
This is exactly what I'm talking about. The attitude is that overlapped IO is "better" and screw you if you don't want to redesign your existing software to use it. First, here's a real example where it isn't better. You have some app which holds a thousand some sockets and receives packets infrequently. With epoll you need one buffer when the odd packet arrives regardless of which socket is ready. With overlapped IO…
Use the select function then. Wait for completion of that instead. No need to allocate buffers for sockets that receive messages infrequently.
epoll is a horribly designed API. It should absolutely not be replicated on other platforms.
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.NET is massive. Just look for job listings. C# gets more money over here in the UK than C++, with there being far far far more jobs using C# and .NET. Also, just look at how many developer jobs there are in Windows-land versus Linux-land: you hardly ever see Linux development jobs apart from embedded development. Windows is huge.
Most web development/back-end-services/java jobs are technically linux development if C# jobs are windows development right?
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Which bit of Windows do you feel is DOS-like? Did you ever use DOS? The DOS underbelly of Windows disappeared with the release of Windows XP over a decade ago. Windows 95 and 98 were DOS-based, or at least had DOS underpinnings to some extent I think. From an API point of view, the Win32 API is incredibly stable and reliable and allows the ability to run programs from decades ago. This contrasts sharply with Linux, w…
We are now starting a large Python/Django project. All of our software development to date save iOS has been done on Windows machines. It is quickly becoming a PITA to develop these kinds of projects on a non-unix platform. Serioulsly considering switching everyone to Mac Pro's despite cost (10 to 12 seats). Yes, there are work-arounds. Not sure they solve the problem. More than willing to listen to suggestions.
Or I suppose you could go with Linux and fight the shifting desktop sands? (That's why I got fed up with it and switched mainly to Mac OSX; despite the OSX changes, they're gradual and not insisting that we drop the dock or window behaviour etc.)
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If we combine BSD and Linux, it's actually not so bad. * Globally, Android pretty much owns the mobile market. Android is a Linux. * Most servers run some flavour of Linux or BSD. * Although Windows still dominates the desktop market, a healthy share of the laptop market belongs to OS X, which is (partially) based on BSD. This isn't exactly how the Open Source crowd envisioned "Linux on the desktop", but if the goal…
So while Linux users can feel happy that Android is Linux under the covers, really, the real reason it is so popular is that it's so different from Linux. For an average user, thankfully it doesn't have any traits of Linux. Like, when I install Android on my machine, I don't have to go and manually edit the xorg.conf file so that the machine knows my monitor can take 1280 x 800 resolution and not just 640 by 480, aft…
The 90s called, they want their complaints about Linux back.
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You'd be amazed how big that small niche is. Quite a lot of people like .NET development.
I never said their nice was small right now . I said that MSFT is not guaranteed a place at the Big Person table in every market forever. For example, when's the last time you saw someone using a MSFT mobile device?
There's no foreseeable threat to Microsoft in the enterprise, that market is roughly split in 3 between (mostly) cross platform C++, (mostly) cross platform Java and Windows-only .NET (I don't think any enterprise really uses Mono in production). And both C++ and Java predate .NET, so enterprises seem to love .NET to have moved over to it.
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Microsoft Security Essentials hasn't been testing as well as competitor AVs now for a few years. Also, MSE has been deprecated and replaced by Windows Defender, even though it seems that only the name has changed.
Has it really? I need to update my AV setup then. Any recommendations?
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So while Linux users can feel happy that Android is Linux under the covers, really, the real reason it is so popular is that it's so different from Linux. For an average user, thankfully it doesn't have any traits of Linux. Like, when I install Android on my machine, I don't have to go and manually edit the xorg.conf file so that the machine knows my monitor can take 1280 x 800 resolution and not just 640 by 480, aft…
> I don't have to go and manually edit the xorg.conf The 90s called, they want their complaints about Linux back.
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So while Linux users can feel happy that Android is Linux under the covers, really, the real reason it is so popular is that it's so different from Linux. For an average user, thankfully it doesn't have any traits of Linux. Like, when I install Android on my machine, I don't have to go and manually edit the xorg.conf file so that the machine knows my monitor can take 1280 x 800 resolution and not just 640 by 480, aft…
> I don't have to go and manually edit the xorg.conf The 90s called, they want their complaints about Linux back.