Linus Torvalds disses OS X.
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system, had a few choice words to say about Windows and OS X the other day.
“I don’t think they’re equally flawed - I think Leopard is a much better system, (but) OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.”
Yowza. Having never really investigated the OS X filesystem, I can’t really say I have an opinion one way or the other. From a user’s standpoint, though, I definitely agree with him that OS X is the superior operating system. Now I don’t want to start any fierce debates here, since my blog is all of two posts old, but I’ve come around to the philosophy that Macs are the ultimate consumer PC, while Windows PCs are the best for enterprises. Linux is on its way up, and is getting more and more user-friendly with every release - but for now it’s still best-suited for tinkerers and more technically savvy users.
But I digress. I haven’t heard too much in the news about Torvalds recently, but man did he catch people’s attention with his statements at the linux.conf.au conference.
via the Sydney Morning Herald.
