30 August, 2009

Operating System Rivalry




God I'm sick of Apple this & Microsoft that & all the while the simple cousin Linux hangs out around the fringes. Don't get me wrong this is not a Linux Booster story Although Linux is a totally usable OS & has more CRAP (& in some cases out & out LIES) written about it than any other OS; But is more about the absolute mind numbing BULLSHIT so called Rivalry between the OS's.
Most of this "rivalry" has of course been generated by the companies involved Apple & Microsoft as well as the LAZY Tech "journalists" who rather than research claims made in press releases & press events just re-gurgitate the claims as facts, You Know who you are, Hang your heads in shame !.
But with Virtualization technology all of these arguments fall by the wayside operating systems will be running side by side on the same machine as soon as Apple figures out the money it could make by selling OSX to non-Apple hardware Owners (they could even sell it as a pre-configured Virtual Machine thus maintaining their monopolistic hold over it).
As it stands now I run an extremley light linux install with several linux & Windows VM's I will run up to 3 of these VM's at any time VNC-ing into each and controlling them through a remote client (laptop,smartphone or iPod touch). This setup maximizes my main computers "bang for buck" potential using all the cores & most of the memory (assuming that each machine is working) .
So a heads up to all of those perpetuating The OS Wars out there all of your arguments are about to become totally redundant as are you, Unless you can foster a new so called war , Hmmm, Facebook v's Twitter maybe.....

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