Philip

Linus once again has decided to put his foot in his mouth with sweeping comments about how great his kernel is. I remember the last time I commented about something like this, he was whining about how EFI was crap since it reminded (yes, merely reminded) him about ACPI which he claimed was crap as well and that real men toss the BIOS aside the second they get the chance when booting up.

Anyhow, here’s the comment from SMH, read the full interview here:

Q. Do you have a favourite between Leopard and Vista?

A. I don’t think they’re equally flawed. I think Leopard is a much better system. On the other hand, (I’ve found) OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary. I think OS X is nicer than Windows in many ways, but neither can hold a candle to my own (Linux). It’s a race to second place!

Well, given that the usability of the Linux kernel on its own is “crap” and that Linus owes a lot to GNU for providing all those tools that the kernel uses, I think he hasn’t got much of a leg to stand on. Given he also didn’t write ext2 or ext3, I don’t think he’s qualified to make statements about other file systems at this point in time in such sweeping generalisations.