Android App Developer: The OS is 'Hidious'

[nevertell]

The only thing that is a mess in linux is sound. With all the pulseaudio/alsa BS, I can't have sound if I want to wine games. BUT, for example, the big stuff like X.org and many kernel segments are managed by professionals, like some apple dude is managing X.org at the moment, whilst nokia/intel are developing new modules for it. It is not just some god damn nerds in a basement that are dev'ing linux, it's all of the major companies that are using it AND the enthusiasts, mainly because the big companies benefit from it. And it sort of is like a big (but slow) grow cycle, companies dev it further, more "civic" people use it, percentage of them start to dev it further, companies see more potential in it so they dev further.

 

[maydaynomore]

Yo mama!

 

[pcfxer]

[citation][nom]1337_b0i[/nom]GNU/Linux is a huge mess itself. You have thousands of different minds with different ideas (most of them being hobbyists) all developing/contributing to an OS. The advantage M$, Apple and Berkeley all have over Linux/Linus is that they all have a group of engineers that accomplish things with a unified goal by goal basis.This makes GNU/Linus very messy, not necessarily worse, just messy.[/citation]

Hence FreeBSD is superior.

 

[guzz46]

GNU/Linux is a huge mess itself. You have thousands of different minds with different ideas (most of them being hobbyists) all developing/contributing to an OS. The advantage M$, Apple and Berkeley all have over Linux/Linus is that they all have a group of engineers that accomplish things with a unified goal by goal basis.This makes GNU/Linus very messy, not necessarily worse, just messy.

How does having many different minds contributing to an OS make it messy? do they have to be under the one roof or be getting paid by the same company for them to have a unified goal?

Hopefully meego will be a success

 

[palladin9479]

Because thousands of different minds think in thousands of different ways. Without someone to provide a clear vision / path for success you end up with thousands of people playing tug-a-war with their different ideas, often with the losers just taking their ball and going home. Instead of a single well-maintained standard you get three, four or five different standards all developed with different Pro / Cons. And on one is taking from all these different standards to make a single unified one, typically because of philosophical views.

Linux isn't an OS, its a kernel and platform standard. Its up to the different distributions to put together the OS piecemeal from the various pieces and parts floating out there, or develop them themselves (RHEL / Mandriva).