Open Source and Free Software

HopeHoops

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2. The various flavors are a good thing. Some have builds for small machines,

Tue Dec 13, 2011, 11:02 AM

Dec 2011

and others have builds for clusters. All of it is open source so you can fuck with it as you please, but standardizing it would simply marginalize it. Remember the early 80's when everything had to be "PC Compliant"? That was stupid. I had an Amiga 2000 with a 386 card that could blow away any of the so called "PCs" of the day. Yet the native operating system was far superior - full multitasking with multiple environments (what you would call "users" on Win 7) that you could switch between seamlessly. And it ran the OS off of a fucking 750K single-sided 3 1/2" floppy! The Atari ST was a close second and Mac wasn't far behind. Win 3.0 was the first thing even close to catching up and it sucked moose cock. Win 3.11 was the only stable version in that era.

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