Monday, July 19, 2004
Please OPEN the Window! The Penguin needs to come in!! @
By Whoosh 2 @ 12:50 pm      3 Comments
I got my first computer sometime in the early 1990s. All that i knew was that Appa (Daddy) had brought a machine home on which i could play that lovely car game that i just adored. And i didnt care about anything else. I mugged up a few DOS commands to get me into the game and that was it.. But after a while it got boring and i wanted to know what that black screen full of characters was!  1 year hence i mastered DOS and i was proud of it as i had done it by myself! I took an inherent liking towards Microsoft! 

Slowly in mid-1996 i got my first real upgrade. Windows 95 was installed on my system **cool** though i didnt know why i needed another thing (an operating system) when i had good old MSDOS on which i could play all my super games (Indy, Jurassic Park and what not). Little did i know that i was getting moulded into the computer engineer i would one day be from then on! Windows 95 was really nice. I still remember the lovely little "file manager" that would take me where i want and the cute little white colored mouse which made my Win95 experience that much more entertaining.
 
Then came Windows 98 and i was an ardent Windows fan then.  Sometime in 2000, i heard a word called Linux. Whatever that was!!! I just have a passing rememberance of that day. I read it in a book called "Chip" that i bought. It carried this article about how Linux was "taking over the world". Silly - I thought. But i installed the free software just for the heck of it on my machine and tried to work my magic (i recalled my MSDOS days when i saw the console). My first impression was that LINUX WAS HARD!!!!  But thankfully, i had some Unix experience, so i was able to cope up. Still, after using Windows, Linux was like putting me 10 years back.. Whats so nice about this OS that the whole world is talking about??  Obviously, i was too naive at that point!
 
4 years hence, i feel that Linux is probably the best thing that is happening to the community. I never thought that i would say that, but i guess it is true. Make no mistake. I am still a Microsoft fan, and that is the reason i am so interested in the rise of Linux. Here is the OS that could put my dear Windows out of existence!
 
But honestly speaking, i feel that Windows has just too many bugs in it. The reason why Linux is so stable is because so many hackers and programmers  are constantly testing the code and modifying it to make it robust. This, unfortunately is not the case with Windows. If i could ever meet Bill Gates, i would tell him "OPEN the WINDOW please. let the PENGUIN come in!".This by no way means that Microsoft needs to go to the drain. All that i am saying is, if Microsoft would release its code for the Windows OS and follow the Linux model, then Windows would transform itself into a much better Operating System. But, Microsoft would never do it, I know :( . 

I myself am slowly going the Linux way... but still somewhere down there.. Microsoft is still there..
 
I am going to sleep now..
 
Start -> Turn off Human Body -> Hibernate!

 


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