Comments on: Not use Linux? http://tottinge.blogsome.com/2005/08/30/136/ Tim Ottinger on Christianity, freedom, software, podcasts, and really hot-looking guitars. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:06:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Administrator http://tottinge.blogsome.com/2005/08/30/136/#comment-20 Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:13:26 +0100 http://tottinge.blogsome.com/2005/08/30/136/#comment-20 Yeah, I know your industry, and the degree to which they design their tools for a microsoft-only world. There are some good signs of things moving (ever so slowly) in that direction, though. http://www.ni.com/linux/ http://xtronics.com/toshiba/comp_link.htm http://www.control.com/1011195315/index_html http://rongage.org/ But I appreciate what you say about AB and the like not supporting Linux, and I completely understand how you're stuck there. Bummer. Well, given enough time, it will be everwhere (who expected IBM to do what they did?), so maybe there is hope. And I suppose it might even be better if control applications went to something like BSD rather than linux (still free, but famously stable), though the differences don't seem to be all that great. Yeah, I know your industry, and the degree to which they design their tools for a microsoft-only world. There are some good signs of things moving (ever so slowly) in that direction, though.

http://www.ni.com/linux/
http://xtronics.com/toshiba/comp_link.htm
http://www.control.com/1011195315/index_html
http://rongage.org/

But I appreciate what you say about AB and the like not supporting Linux, and I completely understand how you’re stuck there. Bummer. Well, given enough time, it will be everwhere (who expected IBM to do what they did?), so maybe there is hope.

And I suppose it might even be better if control applications went to something like BSD rather than linux (still free, but famously stable), though the differences don’t seem to be all that great.

]]> by: Walter Moore http://tottinge.blogsome.com/2005/08/30/136/#comment-19 Tue, 06 Sep 2005 05:31:25 +0100 http://tottinge.blogsome.com/2005/08/30/136/#comment-19 Much to my regret, none of the software tools that I need for my profession are available for Linux. Needless to say, this severly limits my interest in the O.S. Much to my regret, none of the software tools that I need for my profession are available for Linux. Needless to say, this severly limits my interest in the O.S.

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