--On Tuesday, September 27, 2005 6:35 PM -0400 jludwig
<wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Control of the system is complete with Linux, unlike MS systems, and this
is not apparent unless you worked with these systems where unusual
issues, or problems have arisen. On a Linux system terminal you can
directly work on the system and programs as root without any controls
form the operating system.
Another issue is visibility. When something isn't working right, I can see
all the code down to the bare hardware. (I'm of course excluding
proprietary drivers such as nVidia's.) I can identify problems myself at
the source level and the developers have been great about fixing the issue
or accepting a patch and getting me up and running quickly.
Right now I'm coding in the MS world and I curse every time I run into the
"source wall" of the OS or a proprietary driver for which I have no source,
and can't do more than try to create a reproducible crash.
