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...course, it's these guys' jobs to shoot at each other. Now that coding for the PC version of Quake III is finished--it wrapped up at 4:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving day--all that's left is tweaking for Mac and Linux versions, and plenty of play testing. Last week the only thing you could hear in Suite 666 was resounding cries of "Dammit, get out of the way!" and "I've picked up the shotgun. I'll cover you!" Carmack, described reverentially by a team member as "an evil genius," is not playing. He's already hard...
Scherer also said that numerous other alternative operating systems are available, including Linux, a free Unix-like operating system that is used by millions and considered technologically superior in some aspects...
Just how many applications run on Linux? That's a good question--so good, in fact, that the answer doesn't appear anywhere in Jackson's findings. The truth is that there are probably more Linux programs than he realized--a lot more. The best estimate I could find was tens of thousands. Linux, after all, inherited thousands of programs written for Unix, its software progenitor, and users are constantly adding to that library, modifying here, rewriting there, publicizing some and hoarding others...
...market--the larger computers known as servers--Linux is already a threat to Microsoft, says Eric Raymond, a Linux evangelist. Linux runs on nearly a third of all servers, and according to Raymond, it will soon make similar inroads in the consumer market. His reasoning: as computer prices spiral downward, the price PC manufacturers pay to license Windows grows proportionately, cutting into their meager margins. PC makers will "start defecting en masse to Linux," Raymond predicts, "because they can no longer make money partnered with Microsoft...
Perhaps. But Linux still has a long way to go in the dumb-like-me consumer market. Windows' main claim to fame is its relative ease of use--at least compared to MS-DOS. Or raw Linux. Until the Linuxians create a system that's as easy to use as Windows--or better still, the Mac--Microsoft has nothing to worry about. Well, almost nothing...