Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
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I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.Jamie Zawinski
And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.
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Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!
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Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.
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Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need to do, regardless.
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