“My last column on Linux has elicited 550 e-mails as of this
writing, the majority of their writers angry. I admit that I did
not properly differentiate between the Linux kernel and specific
Linux distributions.”
“I think Linux is too open. I would be thrilled if the Linux
kernel came with an LDAP directory service and forced all
applications to use the security and configurations stored in that
directory. What I like about the Windows NT world is that these
services are integrated with one another today. Okay, it’s not the
best implementation, but it is a step in the right direction.
“Give me a Linux with the application integration capabilities
of NT without having to recompile to get SMP, and which is ready
out of the box, and I will be more than happy to use it. Having
hundreds of discreet distributions for Linux is too
cumbersome.”