[LinuxUsers] Microsoft-buntu

Mark Traceur marktraceur at gmail.com
Thu Nov 5 20:31:37 UTC 2009


>> Does the average user understand "NT kernel" on the desktop? Do >> they understand Darwin kernel on the desktop? No, and I guess >> they never will.

Just the same, the NT kernel allows a few things that the Linux kernel
doesn't...and (as I now know from my failure at programming assembly
on Linux) the system calls are all kinds of different, so all the
software would need to be ported.



On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:11 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <jhoger at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Dino K <socallinux at cloudcomp.info> wrote:
>> Haha as much as I like linux, M$ moving to Linux will never happen.
>>
>> The average user doesn't understand linux on the desktop and probably never
>> will.
>>
>
> Does the average user understand "NT kernel" on the desktop? Do they
> understand Darwin kernel on the desktop? No, and I guess they never
> will.
>
> -- John.
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