Mundane discussions? Taking over the OS world? Maybe we should go over the mandate of Linux as set forth by Linus himself; so you know its not a figment of my imagination. Here's a guy who develops an OS for absolutely no profit/$$ for himself .. this is above and beyond his day job at Transmeta [explaining why we have the delays in the new kernel] and then we have an absolutely brilliant guy by the name of AC and his wife, who sit and code and liason with programmers the world over on wht should be put in and what is buggy; who actually listen to what they have to say and actually .. yeah PHYSICALLY go into discussion threads and forums and help people out .. and you got the idea that they want to dominate the OS world? No the primary goal of Linux is to, and ONLY to, create a secure and stable environment for computing. PERIOD.
Hitherto, Linux has been that way; right uptil kernel 2.0.36; I was rather proud of being able to have a system that was rock solid and impervious to the woes of blue screens! And with the sudden explosion of awareness of the bugs and vulnerabilities a Windows environment, people tried looking elsewhere [NB: XayD, if you think that you will buy an NT system for stability, you obviously havent worked with NT, or are measuring NT performance vs win9x performance, thats all i gotta say on that, research out the vulnerabilities on NT, ntbugtrak or packetstorm might be a good place to start, although it wouldnt hurt to lend your email address to M$ vulnerability mass mailer]. So now over the development of kernel 2.2.xx I have been getting disillusioned by Linux, and not cos I feel that script kiddies or those that want an alternative to their flaky Quake running Win9x machines are using Linux GUI; but because in designing distribs that cater to these mouse pushers; the stability and the performance of Linux has taken a hit; and so has the amt of bloatware. And so now I look towards BSD to bring out the same performance that Linux is now whining about. With 2.4.xx, I hope that it will be a while before the windoze/alt OS seeking genre are going to come out with experiments like WinLinux; simply because this is a SERIOUS OS, and CATERING TO THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR OF TECH ABILITIES IS COUNTER PRODUCTIVE!
I wouldnt have condoned the efforts of userfriendliness so much, had they been able to educate the masses rather than stoop to their level.
And finally; in my view, this is a very serious board, if there are issues abt your personal preference of who is a command line addict and who's a GUI user, it might be a good idea to leave the discussion to the General Forum where such a platform is welcome simply cos its a free forum for everyone to rant and rave. If you have serious Linux issues that you wish solved, or comment on the merits or demerits of a particular piece of code or would like to help someone who needs it then that is what this forum is for.
I come here with the intent at helping people out on this place, not with an intent to talk to people, that I do on the general forum.
Cheers
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