Devastating Ubuntu Review

by Tim Lee on April 25, 2008 · Comments

This is an absolutely devastating review of Ubuntu:

In recent years Linux has suffered a major set-back following the shock revelations form SCO Group, whose software had been stolen wholesale and incorporated into illegal distributions of Linux. For the past five years, the overwhelming effort of Linux developers has gone into removing SCO’s intellectual property from the Linux operating system – but as the threat of litigation has subsided many users are asking once-again if Linux is a serious contender?

…if you object to this communism, tough luck: The so-called “Completely Fair Scheduler” is incorporated into the “kernel” ( which is the Linux equivalent of the MS Dos layer in older versions of windows). This “feature” alone is enough to frighten serious users away from the upstart operating system… Windows users have no need of the “Completely Fair Scheduler” because we have modern scheduling software such as Microsoft Outlook (above). Outlook allows you to give your time to whoever you want, regardless of any socialist definitions of ‘fairness’.

I’ve traditionally been favorable toward Linux-based operating systems, but this puts them in a whole new light.

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  • Funniest thing I've seen yet this week! (Even if it is 8:30 on Sunday morning.)
  • Kjell
    Shelley the republican is classic satire, much in the same vein as the Landover Baptists. Check out the rest of the ite for some trule hillarious pieces, though of course some of the funniest material comes from the offended liberals who don't get the joke.
  • I think that some evil capitalist revaunchists are sneaking some code into linux installations, there's all this stuff about "classpath" being an environmental variable, how captialist is that?
  • Michael, it's clearly satire. Nobody clueless enough to take the stance this takes would know what a kernel is, or who SCO is, or how to find the readme file on the installation CD.
  • dimitris
    Dammit, the linked site is no longer viewable, "exceeded its CPU quota". That's what completely free schedulers get you, you Linux commie traitors!
  • I can't make up my mind if that's a satiric website or simply a site run by totally insane Republicans who are completely serious but deluded.

    The Linux review gets off on the wrong foot by saying the OS was created by Richard Stallman, then goes downhill with the claims about SCO -- which lost its groundless lawsuit and then went out of business. If it's satire, it's not very good.
  • The article was brilliant, but the comments had me in stitches. I had no idea fishing was so easy in these waters. I guess you just have to use the right bait.
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