It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

[Tom Buskey]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

>  This is actually from 2005, but I just found it now:
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/desktop-bugs/2005-August/002500.html
>
>  Yes, that's right.  Rather than fix broken software, the sanctioned
> course of action is to reboot the system if HAL or DBus need to be
> restarted/refreshed.
>
>  Can anyone recommend a Free, Unix-like operating system that
> supports a wide variety of hardware?  That used to be Linux, but it
> now fails on the second item.
>
>
NetBSD comes closest, especially for CPU architectures.  FreeBSD might beat
NetBSD for peripherals.  I'm not sure if OpenBSD is head of OpenSolaris.
Darwin is another possibility.

Of course, these are Unix systems and you asked for Unix-like (which linux
technically is).

Haiku probably isn't unix-like enough.  Is Hurd far enough along yet?
Debian on BSD or Hurd?

What about a Linux distro that doesn't use HAL or DBus.  Slackware?
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