Week 1 - Rainer Toots - The falling behind of Linux
It is quite clear to see that to make something successful you have to have a couple of bad ideas, but what is important is the fact that you learn from your mistakes and keep on pushing with better ideas, to perhaps get lucky once, then you have to just, as Microsoft would put it: "Keep riding the bear." I wanted to write about why Linux has fallen behind to the likes of Apple and Microsoft's operating systems, when there is a lot of good ideas for Linux in its development cycle. Open-source, more access, better control over your system, when Linux offers you these features, why didn't everyone just jump to it over Microsoft's OS. For a bit of background information : Linux started being developed at 1991 by Linus Torvalds as a hobby project at first but later on it would be additionally developed by other people to form distributions of Linux like: Ubuntu, Mandrake, etc. Hardware compatibility Currently Linux as an OS is very poor for home-use becaus