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What CAN’T Linux do?
March 27, 2008 (9:00:00 AM) - 4 months, 3 weeks ago
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A few weeks ago a colleague of mine sent me a link to a story about a man who clustered together 16 Playstation 3s using Linux to simulate black holes. I had forgotten about this until yesterday when I was thinking, “What can’t Linux do?” I know, I know, you’re thinking: Alright fanboy, bring on your dogma. Not so. This isn’t one of those pie in the sky, wishful thinking blog entries where I am going to go on to spout that Linux will, in fact: cure cancer, solve global warming, fix the U.S. economic crisis, and release the world from its dependency on oil (although it might help in those arenas).
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What CAN’T Linux do?
Posted by: Dummy00001 on March 27, 2008 10:31 AM- Display ASS subtitles. Must have for watching anime.
- Dual-head video card support. At best rudimentary. (Yes, I know the pile of crap I need to put in my xorg.conf - no, i will not do again, i will NOT do it manually.)
- WLAN USB cards support. Only about 1 out of 10 devices on market is supported. 0 out of 10 newly released adapters is supported.
- Decent notebook support. Even after shutting most applications and services down, something still writes something to hard drive keeping it spinning. At arbitrary times notebooks going out of sleep. Working standby is rarity. Reliable hibernation is dream.
- Finally, Linux can NOT decent documentation. Most GUI applications pretend to be "intuitive," but severely lack any kind of documentation. Also OO.o lack "comprehensible" documentation.
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