I noticed that many people added the iPhone to their wish list ever since it came out and those who managed to buy it have somewhat been infected by the “I Love Apple” syndrome wherein they just keep on saying how great the iPhone is. Ask them about the problems and they say, “Well, the problems are just minor.”
A few days ago, I was having in the mall with my two daughters. On our way home, we stopped by a cellphone shop selling Samsung’s i900 Omnia. The salesman immediately compared the Omnia with the iPhone pointing out all of iPhone’s flaws and pitching the “advantages” of the Omnia. Well, I have to say that the Omnia does look much better and much more usable than the iPhone and also a bit cheaper. Nonetheless, the “iPhone virus” seems to still linger in my mind until today…
When a fellow blogger - Marhgil Macuha - twittered about this:
Well, that says it. I definitely won’t buy an iPhone. Even if the iPhone has a bigger screen and more colors than the Omnia, I’d still go for the Samsung i900 Omnia
Yep, for this particular case, Linux is actually not an operating system at all. Instead, it’s the name of Christian Nielsen’s baby. The baby was born (or released) last August 24 and is pretty much stable. Questions raised by Linux.com are:
- Will Richard Stallman insist that the baby be called GNU/Linux?
- Does a baby named Linux go to sleep and wake up without problems?
- How often does he outgrow his footwear and require a reboot?
I wish to add the following questions:
- Will he be using CUPS when he starts to write?
- Would he prefer NFS over Samba when it comes to sharing stuff?
- Will desktop will he be using when he starts to go to work? KDE, Gnome, XFCE, or something else?
Oh well, I think the name’s cool. Here’s a photo of the cute baby.
Cool, eh?
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