After flirting with tech from 1989 onwards, Sam Varghese began to experiment with Linux in 1998. A couple of years later, he began using the Debian distribution as a single-boot system for his personal use. From that point onwards his interest grew and he has since written widely about free and open source software, with a great deal of his writings based on his own experiences, rather than anecdotal evidence. Open Sauce will focus on a genre of software that is present everywhere but rarely acknowledged; a genre that has little eye-candy but does most of the heavy lifting; a genre that is designed and written by people whose accomplishments are only occasionally recognised. Above all this blog will follow the KISS principle - Keep It Simple, Stupid.

Apple's Xmas gift: wireless networking problems

by Sam Varghese

Saturday, 08 December 2007

Page 2 of 2 Pardon me if I sound a bit smug but if anything remotely (pun intended) resembling this had been experienced with any - yes, any - Linux distribution, it would have been fixed pronto. Featured Whitepaper 5 Best Practices for Smartphone Support Just 10 days back I was having a chat with Steve Walsh who's handling the networking at the forthcoming annual national Linux conference in January. And Steve had a tale to tell me about how some users were grumbling about the poor wireless support in Hoary Hedgehog, the version of Ubuntu that was released at the 2005 conference; a few Ubuntu develeopers who were nearby overheard the complaints and shortly thereafter fixes became available to ensure that these problems went away. And remember, Ubuntu is one of the distributions that is put out by a big company. There was no paralysis or bureaucracy when it came to fixing bugs, though. The Linux culture prevails. I'm pretty sure that by now Apple must be well aware of how Leopard is getting between laptop users and the internet. But maybe the developers have already gone on their Christmas leave. Maybe paying out overtime to developers to fix the problem will cut into Steve Jobs' bonus. Or maybe it's time for Apple users to realise one fundamental truth: proprietary software, no matter the source, really does have some drawbacks. Users are incidental to proprietary software companies who generally only care for one thing - moolah. Tags See All Tags Apple  Linux  Sam Varghese  Powered By Joomla Tags Please enable JavaScript in your browser to post your comment! << First page <   1 2 Next page > Last page - Post your comment >>

 

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