So I came across this article on Zdnet, as I’m sure most “digg” users have. I really didn’t know what to think of it. It seems as though the writer didn’t do any due diligence before slamming the keys of his keyboard obviously attached to his PC running Windows. The article was written by a one “ jerryleecooper” and I would have to fire him for being so inaccurate. It amazes me that people who have no credentials on the subject get as much attention as they do.

Now granted, this was under a blog posting, but I still think that in today’s day of “tech” one would at least understand that Linux or GNU/Linux is an operating system from beginning to finish. He notes in his article about drivers, and how Microsoft spent 9 billion dollars to develop Vista. Well, that should say something right there. There is value in open source software. The last time I checked, Vista was one of the worst operating systems released to date. There has been article after article of general “non geek / techie” consumers complaining about the resource utilization of the Vista operating system.

Jerry says: “Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.”

Did I read that correctly? What is a “critical part of Windows”? I’ve google’d it and I’m not finding anything on it. I’m a little concerned because I run Ubuntu and CentOS and I’m a little concerned because I might have left out some “critical part”. If anyone can help me I would surely appreciate it as I just realzied by his article that my system must be incomplete without these so called “parts”.

If you get a chance, please go comment on his article.