Linux popularity (from "A-EON Technology: Introducing Tabor and the A1222")

[kolla]

One OS I still have some for use today, was used by the company that introduced me to it for heart monitors.

Not the kind of application I want to have running on something that isn't virtually perfect.

Heart monitors are typically not perfect, but they are designed to make a lot of noise and be obvious when they fail. If you want to build something "perfect", you use several independent and different systems working in parallel to provide good redundancy. Exactly what operating systems and what hardware that is best suited, depends entirely on what problem you are solving. Btw, I do have some experience from working as system administrator and technical assistant at a medical research facility. Sometimes the best solution is to not have any OS at all, but let the application take over the metal entirely

[kolla]

Nope, I just had friends who lost a lot of money due to piracy.

Pirated BSD software, now that's a brain twister :hammer:

[kolla]

And I think part of my poor attitude about this, was how I saw this all closing in from the '80s on.
I feel like ALL the major OS offer limited variation/choice.

I can rotate through just about any of them, and they are all so...alike.

This I agree with, all mainstream systems just oogle each other for inspiration and they all aim for "most users", and hence become very alike and very boring.

However, there are lots alternative options, all you have to do is just to use them.

[bison]

I don't get the whole OS-partisan thing.  I pretty much like them all, with the exception of Windows, which has caused me undue pain over the years.

There's an old saying: if you live in an Amiga house, don't throw stones.

[nicholas]

Like one phone I have, which I now wish I'd never done.
Android is still proprietary.



Obviously you didn't grow up watching a large US company and Universities across the country invest their time, effort and money only to have their work purloined by a hack then.
Remember what you guys have already said "created because he couldn't afford'...

But then the Amiga community has a long history of expecting someone else's work at low or no cost, and making excuses for outright theft.

Ahem..... http://morphos.de/intro

[nicholas]

I don't get the whole OS-partisan thing.  I pretty much like them all, with the exception of Windows, which has caused me undue pain over the years.

There's an old saying: if you live in an Amiga house, don't throw stones.

They all have their uses and the PITA issues. I'm with you on Windows being more trouble than it's worth.

[Fats]

Reliability and good security are not inherent to the environments you advocate.

Linux seems to be reliable and secure enough to run (big part of) wall street.
"Perfect is the enemy of good" and that is one thing Linus understands well.