[ILUG] Linus says Apple FS is "Utter Crap" worse than vista... ; -)

[Belgarath]

Torvalds was reffering to apple FS namely HFS+ which was created in 80's and 
lacks a lot of things that modern Filesystem should have.

On Thu 07 Feb 2008 20:50:01 Conor Wynne wrote:
> http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/utter-crap-torvalds-pans-apple/2008/0
>2/05/1202090393959.html
>
> Its even worse than vista in some ways apparently. :-)
>
> I got a new machine on Saturday, came with vista premium, and its
> pretty cool as a media center, but it is rubbish for absolutely
> everything else.
> It only has 1GB RAM, and this is nowhere near enough to do anything
> productive, but that's fine as it is currently only being used as a
> media machine.
>
> I tried booting 64bit linux (xubuntu), but it borked and had an OOM
> error. Annoyed I kept vista for a while. 32bit works fine though,
> although I am torrenting FC8 64-bit --Does no-one torrent distros? Its
> taking all week, and still only 25% complete!
>
> This machine I'm writing on has leopard, and my old machine now runs
> RHEL5.1 desktop  (again).
> I must say that in power management, linux is still behind OSX, but
> ahead of windows. Vista is better than XP for PM - but vista has PMS
> everywhere else, like VM utilisation, OMG, how memory hungry is this
> piece of crap?
>
> I am playing with it, as I did buy it, but it is certainly not staying
> there for long...
> Anyone recommend a good media app for linux? Ideally I would like to
> use the TV style remote as well, any chance of that working... am I
> dreaming?
>
> regards
> Conor.