I came across this excellent article about Linux operating systems, and I was surprised to see that it is not a featured article. After some investigation, I find that it was a candidate twice before. The last time was over a year ago. I think that a few experts in this field could bring this article up to featured status. [Disclaimer: I have not made any significant changes to the article.] Axl 11:47, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
It's thorough, but not good enough for FA. Much of the article is written from a pro-Linux POV. It minimizes or outright avoids criticisms, such as of the Linux copyright, from philosophical (viral licenses, instability, many forks causing incompatibility and non-standardization, perceived security issues from openness) to outright legal attacks from SCO, of usability, costs, support issues, such as from Microsoft-associated studies, the high learning curve, and the "friendly rivalries" from the various flavors of BSD Unix, which are still criticisms, whether aiming for more stability, or more security, or whatever. If you want this to be an FA, you need to be more thorough, and more balanced.
I came across this excellent article about Linux operating systems, and I was surprised to see that it is not a featured article. After some investigation, I find that it was a candidate twice before. The last time was over a year ago. I think that a few experts in this field could bring this article up to featured status. [Disclaimer: I have not made any significant changes to the article.] Axl 11:47, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
It's thorough, but not good enough for FA. Much of the article is written from a pro-Linux POV. It minimizes or outright avoids criticisms, such as of the Linux copyright, from philosophical (viral licenses, instability, many forks causing incompatibility and non-standardization, perceived security issues from openness) to outright legal attacks from SCO, of usability, costs, support issues, such as from Microsoft-associated studies, the high learning curve, and the "friendly rivalries" from the various flavors of BSD Unix, which are still criticisms, whether aiming for more stability, or more security, or whatever. If you want this to be an FA, you need to be more thorough, and more balanced.