Number of Linux Distributions Surpasses Number of Users !!!!!!

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Moshe Goldfarb

"Somewhere in California - At 8:30 PDT with the release of Snoopy Linux 2.1
and Goober Linux 1.0, the number of Linux distributions finally surpassed
the number of actual Linux users."


"We've been expecting it for some time," Merrill Lynch technology analyst
Tom Shayes said, "but this is a little sooner than most expected. We've
seen explosive growth in the number of Linux distributions, in fact my
nephew just put out LittleLinux Chart Tommy Linux 1.1 last week."


http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.html
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Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.straw@gmail.com> writes:

> "Somewhere in California - At 8:30 PDT with the release of Snoopy Linux 2.1
> and Goober Linux 1.0, the number of Linux distributions finally surpassed
> the number of actual Linux users."
>
>
> "We've been expecting it for some time," Merrill Lynch technology analyst
> Tom Shayes said, "but this is a little sooner than most expected. We've
> seen explosive growth in the number of Linux distributions, in fact my
> nephew just put out LittleLinux Chart Tommy Linux 1.1 last week."

Kewl! Does it "rock" and "work really well"? Does it meet your "needs"?

> http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.html

LOL. At least some people get it.
 
On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:19:26 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:

> "Somewhere in California - At 8:30 PDT with the release of Snoopy Linux
> 2.1 and Goober Linux 1.0, the number of Linux distributions finally
> surpassed the number of actual Linux users."
>
>
> "We've been expecting it for some time," Merrill Lynch technology
> analyst Tom Shayes said, "but this is a little sooner than most
> expected. We've seen explosive growth in the number of Linux
> distributions, in fact my nephew just put out LittleLinux Chart Tommy
> Linux 1.1 last week."
>
>
> http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.html

Must be somewhat similar to vista stats - 150 million units sold 50 in
use.
 
On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:28:12 +0200, Hadron wrote:

> Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.straw@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> "Somewhere in California - At 8:30 PDT with the release of Snoopy Linux 2.1
>> and Goober Linux 1.0, the number of Linux distributions finally surpassed
>> the number of actual Linux users."
>>
>>
>> "We've been expecting it for some time," Merrill Lynch technology analyst
>> Tom Shayes said, "but this is a little sooner than most expected. We've
>> seen explosive growth in the number of Linux distributions, in fact my
>> nephew just put out LittleLinux Chart Tommy Linux 1.1 last week."
>
> Kewl! Does it "rock" and "work really well"? Does it meet your "needs"?
>
>> http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.html
>
> LOL. At least some people get it.

Hahaha!

Linux and the Linux community is a ball of confusion, a clusterfsck that is
fragmented, filled with hateful, arrogant people and which has no direction
or leadership.

Everyone is free to do their own thing, which is fine if you wish to remain
like the above.
However if Linux ever has a hope of challenging Microsoft for the desktop
it is going to have to reign in the confusion and become organized, even if
it is loosely organized at first.

They can start with why the need for so many different package managers.

Then they can move to why they need 15 different sound systems.

Why so many different native file systems.

Why different startup and shutdown scripts doing different things at the
various levels in the boot/shutdown process.

Why so many different, and duplicate tools to mange the distribution.

An example is Samba.

There has to be a dozen or more tools to set up Samba and for anyone who
has attempted to set up Samba they know how confusing it is.
The net is clogged with How-To's on this topic and it is surely one of the
most frequently asked questions in Linux help groups.


They should take the best of the best, meld it into ONE TOTALLY WORKING
distribution and then put all the other stuff in a repository free to
download if anyone wants to.
This way they can take all of these people who are working on their own
distributions and pool their resources and talent to create a Linux that
actually works instead of the slopware (mostly) that is what desktop Linux
currently is.

But the Linux community won't allow this because they cry "we want
choice!!"

Evidently they want inferior slopware programs as well.

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On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 09:40:21 -0500, Liarnut wrote:

> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>
>> http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.html
>
>
> "Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer said, "Microsoft will have to play catch up
> with the number of versions that Linux has, but we think we can do it. With
> the break up of Microsoft imminent that will instantly double the number of
> Windows versions available." "
>
> LOL

Why the obsession with Windows and Microsoft?
What are you guys afraid of?


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http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/
 
Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>
> Why the obsession with Windows and Microsoft?
> What are you guys afraid of?


http://distrowatch.com/
Development Release: PUD GNU/Linux 0.4.8.6 LXDE Edition
"Pin-Shiun Chen just announced a special version of PUD GNU/Linux, an
Ubuntu-based mini distribution based on the newest LXDE 0.3: "This edition
of live CD....."


LMAO Lxers will be pounding their PUDs now.
 
On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 09:58:41 -0500, Liarnut wrote:

> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>
>> Why the obsession with Windows and Microsoft?
>> What are you guys afraid of?
>
>
> http://distrowatch.com/
> Development Release: PUD GNU/Linux 0.4.8.6 LXDE Edition
> "Pin-Shiun Chen just announced a special version of PUD GNU/Linux, an
> Ubuntu-based mini distribution based on the newest LXDE 0.3: "This edition
> of live CD....."
>
>
> LMAO Lxers will be pounding their PUDs now.

Yep.

Yet another Linux distribution is born.
More confusion.
More slopware.
Same, even after 10 years, 0.6 percent desktop market share.


--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/
 
On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:44:39 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 09:40:21 -0500, Liarnut wrote:
>
>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.html
>>
>>
>> "Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer said, "Microsoft will have to play catch
>> up with the number of versions that Linux has, but we think we can do
>> it. With the break up of Microsoft imminent that will instantly double
>> the number of Windows versions available." "
>>
>> LOL
>
> Why the obsession with Windows and Microsoft? What are you guys afraid
> of?

.... more illegal market manipulation?



--
Rick
 
Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:28:12 +0200, Hadron wrote:
>
>> Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.straw@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> "Somewhere in California - At 8:30 PDT with the release of Snoopy Linux 2.1
>>> and Goober Linux 1.0, the number of Linux distributions finally surpassed
>>> the number of actual Linux users."
>>>
>>>
>>> "We've been expecting it for some time," Merrill Lynch technology analyst
>>> Tom Shayes said, "but this is a little sooner than most expected. We've
>>> seen explosive growth in the number of Linux distributions, in fact my
>>> nephew just put out LittleLinux Chart Tommy Linux 1.1 last week."
>> Kewl! Does it "rock" and "work really well"? Does it meet your "needs"?
>>
>>> http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.html
>> LOL. At least some people get it.
>
> Hahaha!
>
> Linux and the Linux community is a ball of confusion, a clusterfsck that is
> fragmented, filled with hateful, arrogant people and which has no direction
> or leadership.
>
> Everyone is free to do their own thing, which is fine if you wish to remain
> like the above.
> However if Linux ever has a hope of challenging Microsoft for the desktop
> it is going to have to reign in the confusion and become organized, even if
> it is loosely organized at first.
>
> They can start with why the need for so many different package managers.
>
> Then they can move to why they need 15 different sound systems.
>
> Why so many different native file systems.
>
> Why different startup and shutdown scripts doing different things at the
> various levels in the boot/shutdown process.
>
> Why so many different, and duplicate tools to mange the distribution.
>
> An example is Samba.
>
> There has to be a dozen or more tools to set up Samba and for anyone who
> has attempted to set up Samba they know how confusing it is.
> The net is clogged with How-To's on this topic and it is surely one of the
> most frequently asked questions in Linux help groups.
>
>
> They should take the best of the best, meld it into ONE TOTALLY WORKING
> distribution and then put all the other stuff in a repository free to
> download if anyone wants to.
> This way they can take all of these people who are working on their own
> distributions and pool their resources and talent to create a Linux that
> actually works instead of the slopware (mostly) that is what desktop Linux
> currently is.
>
> But the Linux community won't allow this because they cry "we want
> choice!!"
>
> Evidently they want inferior slopware programs as well.
>


Maybe the software has a little ways to go but it is improving rapidly.
with more Linux distros than users just shows how much smarter Linux
users are than windows users.
From the looks of it many more Linux users can create their own OS.
Almost non of the Windows users can.
caver1
 
Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 09:58:41 -0500, Liarnut wrote:
>
>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>> Why the obsession with Windows and Microsoft?
>>> What are you guys afraid of?
>>
>> http://distrowatch.com/
>> Development Release: PUD GNU/Linux 0.4.8.6 LXDE Edition
>> "Pin-Shiun Chen just announced a special version of PUD GNU/Linux, an
>> Ubuntu-based mini distribution based on the newest LXDE 0.3: "This edition
>> of live CD....."
>>
>>
>> LMAO Lxers will be pounding their PUDs now.
>
> Yep.
>
> Yet another Linux distribution is born.
> More confusion.
> More slopware.
> Same, even after 10 years, 0.6 percent desktop market share.
>
>


At least someone thought of giving them pleasure. MS sure don't.
caver1
 
Moshe Goldfarb wrote:

> On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:28:12 +0200, Hadron wrote:
>
>> Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.straw@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> "Somewhere in California - At 8:30 PDT with the release of Snoopy Linux
>>> 2.1 and Goober Linux 1.0, the number of Linux distributions finally
>>> surpassed the number of actual Linux users."
>>>
>>>
>>> "We've been expecting it for some time," Merrill Lynch technology
>>> analyst
>>> Tom Shayes said, "but this is a little sooner than most expected. We've
>>> seen explosive growth in the number of Linux distributions, in fact my
>>> nephew just put out LittleLinux Chart Tommy Linux 1.1 last week."
>>
>> Kewl! Does it "rock" and "work really well"? Does it meet your "needs"?
>>
>>> http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.html
>>
>> LOL. At least some people get it.
>
> Hahaha!
>
> Linux and the Linux community is a ball of confusion, a clusterfsck that
> is fragmented, filled with hateful, arrogant people and which has no
> direction or leadership.
>
> Everyone is free to do their own thing, which is fine if you wish to
> remain like the above.
> However if Linux ever has a hope of challenging Microsoft for the desktop
> it is going to have to reign in the confusion and become organized, even
> if it is loosely organized at first.
>
> They can start with why the need for so many different package managers.
>
> Then they can move to why they need 15 different sound systems.
>
> Why so many different native file systems.
>
> Why different startup and shutdown scripts doing different things at the
> various levels in the boot/shutdown process.
>
> Why so many different, and duplicate tools to mange the distribution.
>
> An example is Samba.
>
> There has to be a dozen or more tools to set up Samba and for anyone who
> has attempted to set up Samba they know how confusing it is.
> The net is clogged with How-To's on this topic and it is surely one of the
> most frequently asked questions in Linux help groups.
>
>
> They should take the best of the best, meld it into ONE TOTALLY WORKING
> distribution and then put all the other stuff in a repository free to
> download if anyone wants to.

Your butt-buddy is working on it now as you type. Just have a little
patience. It's coming!

Cheers.

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Moshe Goldfarb wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 09:58:41 -0500, Liarnut wrote:
>
>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>
>>> Why the obsession with Windows and Microsoft?
>>> What are you guys afraid of?
>>
>>
>> http://distrowatch.com/
>> Development Release: PUD GNU/Linux 0.4.8.6 LXDE Edition
>> "Pin-Shiun Chen just announced a special version of PUD GNU/Linux, an
>> Ubuntu-based mini distribution based on the newest LXDE 0.3: "This
>> edition of live CD....."
>>
>>
>> LMAO Lxers will be pounding their PUDs now.
>
> Yep.
>
> Yet another Linux distribution is born.
> More confusion.
> More slopware.

When do you have the time Mr. Soap Dish, to try out all these distros as
they come out so that you can pass your ultimate judgement on them?

> Same, even after 10 years, 0.6 percent desktop market share.
>
>
Yeh sure, whatever you say Mr. Soap On A Rope. Your contributions to
spreading FUD I'm sure is duly noted by your paymasters at MickeyMouse.

Cheers.


--
The world can't afford the rich.

How to get help at Microsoft Support ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C2SIZ5qsSQ

Francis (Frank) adds a new "gadget" to his Vista box ...
Download it here: http://tinyurl.com/2hnof6
 
"ray" wrote:

> On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:19:26 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>
> > "Somewhere in California - At 8:30 PDT with the release of Snoopy Linux
> > 2.1 and Goober Linux 1.0, the number of Linux distributions finally
> > surpassed the number of actual Linux users."
> >
> >
> > "We've been expecting it for some time," Merrill Lynch technology
> > analyst Tom Shayes said, "but this is a little sooner than most
> > expected. We've seen explosive growth in the number of Linux
> > distributions, in fact my nephew just put out LittleLinux Chart Tommy
> > Linux 1.1 last week."
> >
> >
> > http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.html
>
> Must be somewhat similar to vista stats - 150 million units sold 50 in
> use.
>

Ubuntu expands your wisdom and provide you with plenty of choices so that
you decide what is suitable and comfortable to work with unlike Vista which
thinks you are an idiot and you have nothing else worth while to do.
I use both but the difference is I chose to use Ubuntu and the Vista has
been dumped on me by the manufacturer of the laptop.
 
On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:48:21 -0400, caver1 wrote:

> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>> On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:28:12 +0200, Hadron wrote:
>>
>>> Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.straw@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> "Somewhere in California - At 8:30 PDT with the release of Snoopy Linux 2.1
>>>> and Goober Linux 1.0, the number of Linux distributions finally surpassed
>>>> the number of actual Linux users."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "We've been expecting it for some time," Merrill Lynch technology analyst
>>>> Tom Shayes said, "but this is a little sooner than most expected. We've
>>>> seen explosive growth in the number of Linux distributions, in fact my
>>>> nephew just put out LittleLinux Chart Tommy Linux 1.1 last week."
>>> Kewl! Does it "rock" and "work really well"? Does it meet your "needs"?
>>>
>>>> http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.html
>>> LOL. At least some people get it.
>>
>> Hahaha!
>>
>> Linux and the Linux community is a ball of confusion, a clusterfsck that is
>> fragmented, filled with hateful, arrogant people and which has no direction
>> or leadership.
>>
>> Everyone is free to do their own thing, which is fine if you wish to remain
>> like the above.
>> However if Linux ever has a hope of challenging Microsoft for the desktop
>> it is going to have to reign in the confusion and become organized, even if
>> it is loosely organized at first.
>>
>> They can start with why the need for so many different package managers.
>>
>> Then they can move to why they need 15 different sound systems.
>>
>> Why so many different native file systems.
>>
>> Why different startup and shutdown scripts doing different things at the
>> various levels in the boot/shutdown process.
>>
>> Why so many different, and duplicate tools to mange the distribution.
>>
>> An example is Samba.
>>
>> There has to be a dozen or more tools to set up Samba and for anyone who
>> has attempted to set up Samba they know how confusing it is.
>> The net is clogged with How-To's on this topic and it is surely one of the
>> most frequently asked questions in Linux help groups.
>>
>>
>> They should take the best of the best, meld it into ONE TOTALLY WORKING
>> distribution and then put all the other stuff in a repository free to
>> download if anyone wants to.
>> This way they can take all of these people who are working on their own
>> distributions and pool their resources and talent to create a Linux that
>> actually works instead of the slopware (mostly) that is what desktop Linux
>> currently is.
>>
>> But the Linux community won't allow this because they cry "we want
>> choice!!"
>>
>> Evidently they want inferior slopware programs as well.
>>
>
>
> Maybe the software has a little ways to go but it is improving rapidly.
> with more Linux distros than users just shows how much smarter Linux
> users are than windows users.
> From the looks of it many more Linux users can create their own OS.
> Almost non of the Windows users can.
> caver1

Of course Linux has been improving, but being able to create your own
distribution of the month caters to a small subset of geeks and does
nothing but further the confusion.

The vast majority of the market are USERS not geek programmer types.
That is one major reason why Linux does not appeal to average Joe.


--
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Collector of soaps from around the globe.
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http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/
 
On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:01:08 +0100, Christopher Hunter wrote:

> NoStop wrote:
>
>> Mushy Goldbrick wrote:
>
>>> Yet another Linux distribution is born.
>>> More confusion.
>>> More slopware.
>>
>> When do you have the time Mr. Soap Dish, to try out all these distros as
>> they come out so that you can pass your ultimate judgement on them?
>
> He's too busy collecting samples of his ancestors...
>
> C.

What is it with Linux user and World War II atrocities?
You guys are truly sicko...


--
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Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/
 
On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:07:44 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:

> Of course Linux has been improving, but being able to create your own
> distribution of the month caters to a small subset of geeks and does
> nothing but further the confusion.
>
> The vast majority of the market are USERS not geek programmer types.
> That is one major reason why Linux does not appeal to average Joe.

You don't have to be a geek. Under Ubuntu all it takes is one command to
generate a LiveDVD using your current setup. You can use the LiveDVD on
future reinstalls or if you plan to install to more than one machine, and
you can also boot it on the same machine or a different one and have the
same settings and applications as on your HD. Throw in a USB drive for
persistent storage and you can even save data and configuration changes.
 
On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:24:14 -0500, netcat wrote:

> On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:07:44 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>
>> Of course Linux has been improving, but being able to create your own
>> distribution of the month caters to a small subset of geeks and does
>> nothing but further the confusion.
>>
>> The vast majority of the market are USERS not geek programmer types.
>> That is one major reason why Linux does not appeal to average Joe.
>
> You don't have to be a geek. Under Ubuntu all it takes is one command to
> generate a LiveDVD using your current setup. You can use the LiveDVD on
> future reinstalls or if you plan to install to more than one machine, and
> you can also boot it on the same machine or a different one and have the
> same settings and applications as on your HD. Throw in a USB drive for
> persistent storage and you can even save data and configuration changes.

You've just proved my point.........

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caver1 <caver1@inthemud.org> writes:

> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>> On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 09:58:41 -0500, Liarnut wrote:
>>
>>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>> Why the obsession with Windows and Microsoft?
>>>> What are you guys afraid of?
>>>
>>> http://distrowatch.com/
>>> Development Release: PUD GNU/Linux 0.4.8.6 LXDE Edition
>>> "Pin-Shiun Chen just announced a special version of PUD GNU/Linux,
>>> an Ubuntu-based mini distribution based on the newest LXDE 0.3:
>>> "This edition of live CD....."
>>>
>>>
>>> LMAO Lxers will be pounding their PUDs now.
>>
>> Yep.
>>
>> Yet another Linux distribution is born.
>> More confusion.
>> More slopware.
>> Same, even after 10 years, 0.6 percent desktop market share.
>>
>>
>
>
> At least someone thought of giving them pleasure. MS sure don't.
> caver1

Most people (including Tattoed Lobotomy) want their desktops to work and
have applications working that employees must use to do a job of
work. Not something to give them pleasure.
 
>Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.straw@gmail.com>
>Linux and the Linux community is a ball of confusion

Overall, yes. But then, any sufficiently large demographic seems confused to me
because... well, people can be really, really different from each other.

>filled with hateful, arrogant people

If you're talking about the "I hate MS and everything associated with it"
brigade, then yeah, those folks are really annoying and useless. Also, the
Linux "unpaid salesmen" (typically referred to as "fanbois") are really
annoying, because they're more interested in selling you on their particular
pet distro than actually being honest and helpful. They also almost always
belong to the aforementioned brigade, which makes them doubly useless.

The annoyance of too many Ubuntu fanbois helped convince me to switch to
Debian. I just found Debian to a more serious distro where you can find good
help without having to endure fanbois as much. I was able to put together a
Debian system to do exactly what I wanted easier than with Ubuntu.

>and which has no direction or leadership.

Overall yes. But see my comment above about large demographics.

>Everyone is free to do their own thing, which is fine if you wish to remain
>like the above.
>However if Linux ever has a hope of challenging Microsoft for the desktop
>it is going to have to reign in the confusion and become organized, even if
>it is loosely organized at first.

>They can start with why the need for so many different package managers.

Yeah, that really needs to be addressed. I read an article about a guy who
proposed to have an API added to Linux to aid in the installation of software.
He got a bunch of developers of various package managers together, and got some
feedback from them. The conclusion seemed to be that most of them were planning
to simply keep doing things their own way, weren't all that interested in a
standard Linux API for installation purposes, and didn't really have much of an
interest in working on a more common solution. C'est la vie. So what we have is
a bunch of package systems, and app developers who don't support them all
because it's too much of a pain in the ass.

When I package my software, I make a deb, and that's it. It's not that I have
anything against other package managers, but I happen to use apt-based distros,
and I just don't have the time nor inclination to bother with the package
managers of other distros. If those folks don't want to make it easier for me,
then I'm not interested in them.

>Then they can move to why they need 15 different sound systems.

Because nearly all of them have their flaws, being designed by people who have
some good ideas, but unfortunately, do not seem to choose to have those ideas
peer reviewed by appropriate people (other sound developers, musicians, etc)
before coding starts. This is a really big problem with lots of open source
development. People start coding without taking the extra step of first writing
up some sort of detailed documentation about how the API will work, and getting
that peer-reviewed by other folks who could give good feedback (and maybe
propose some changes that will head off a lot of future dissatisfaction with
the finished code, and forestall a reason for those other dissatisfied folks to
start their own sound system. For some reason, those other dissatisfied folks
repeat the same mistake of not doing what the first programmer should have
done).

I always write up the docs for my software before I even start coding. I
*never* use any sort of utility that creates docs from comments in the source
code, and I think that stuff should be outlawed because it encourages people to
fail to do enough "flow charting" and proper peer review before they start
coding.

>Why so many different native file systems.

Probably for the same reasons as above.

>They should take the best of the best, meld it into ONE TOTALLY WORKING
>distribution and then put all the other stuff in a repository free to
>download if anyone wants to.

>But the Linux community won't allow this because they cry "we want
>choice!!"

I'm sort of with you here. But actually I want more real choice. What I'm
getting with Linux is a bunch of choices that are, to me, pretty much all the
same thing. For example, I don't want a choice between a GUI API that runs atop
of X (and inherents its inherent limitations and design flaws) such as Gnome,
and another GUI API that runs atop of X too such as KDE. I want people to
support more real choices, like instead of dividing up programming attention
between those two, maybe support something that really is much more different
(such as directfb). I don't want a choice between Pulse Audio (ick) or ALSA
(better than Pulse Audio, but still with its problems -- problems that Pulse
Audio inherents because it rides on top of ALSA). I want a choice between sound
systems that really do have a radically different approach. Etc.

There are way, way too many Linux "choices" that are far too similiar, have the
same basic set of features and limitations, and seem to exist simply because
people aren't collaborating better. I'd rather see more collaboration among
people who are doing pretty much the same thing, and encourage "choice" where
it really offers something significantly different. The problem Linux has is
that people aren't collaborating enough when they should, nor are they doing
something significantly different when they should. We're getting choices that
aren't enough of a choice.
 
Hadron wrote:

> Most people (including Tattoed Lobotomy) want their desktops to work and
> have applications working that employees must use to do a job of
> work. Not something to give them pleasure.

Hey, fool. I derive great enjoyment from listening to streaming radio
stations, burning CDs and DVDs, and watching movies.

You're not just a troll, you really ARE stupid.
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Regards,
[tv]

How you look depends on where you go.
 
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