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Lycoris - Linux for the Masses?
Dejected @Work writes "MSNBC.com, a definitely sketchy source of Linux information, just came out with an article "Linux for the Masses" about the ease of installing Lycoris(formerly Redmond Linux) on the desktop. The author even concluded you can 'fall in love with an ever-easier-to-use operating system.' It sounds like great news but am I missing something?" Several favorable reviews of this distro recently. It looks like all you have to do to get the reviewers on your side is to let them play solitaire during the install. :) Update: 04/13 14:53 GMT by T : Eric Krout also suggests the two-part review (part one and part two) over on monolinux.
The really terrible thing is the kernel mods that are necessary to necessary to put the hooks in for their point-n-drool API. I know Linus has the guts to tell them no, but unfortunately all the major distros have started including those patches.
I guess that's the downside of Open Source. You can't make everyone learn the CLI like they should. *sigh*
Come on, the "finally, a linux distro for mom and dad!!" thread is as tired as KDE v GNOME.
The devil will appear in a pleasing form.
This is just MSNBC's way of saying, "Really! We're well balanced journalism."
Give em a few weeks and they'll jump back on the slate-wagon of prank calling Judge Thomas-Pennefield Jackson in the middle of the night.
Tall, Blonde, and Weaponized!"
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However, you forgot one very important point: Gimp is a piece of shit. I don't want to hear that "Gimp is almost as good as Photoshop!"... blah, blah, blah --- it's not, it's shit, end of story. Most professional people that use Photoshop use it for its sheer power, and because they know Photoshop. There are things that Photoshop can do that Gimp will never amount to. For example, try editing a 700 MB TIFF file in Photoshop with it's graphic tools. Try the same in Gimp. Hah!
I normally dislike getting into a flame war with an anonymous piece of shit troll, but for you I'll make an exception.
Did your DNA get hopelessly rearranged when your mother screwed your father up the ass once too many times after she humped the neighborhood's stray dogs?
Pretty pathetic there, fanboy. Isn't it way past your bedtime? Or are you waiting for your Daddy to come into your room and diddle you?
It is not outlandish to question the technical expertise of a computer company, whatever their area of specialization, when they can't even keep together a robust server environment to serve out their website.
Are you going to suggest to suggest that Lycorsis' inability to maintin a website in the face of higher-than-average interest in their product is a good thing? Does their inability to handle servers suggest a greater ability to handle the desktop environment? I don't care if they farmed out the servers to some hosting company. Being unable to maintain a stable web presence suggests Bush League.
If they were some hobbyist with a personal web page, I wouldn't be so quick to criticize, but when they are a supposedly professional company, they are not helping their business by being unable to serve potential customers. And an inablility to maintain the most fundamental business aspects of their enterprise does not bode well for the continued support on the technical end.
You are out of your depth here, sycophant. Great way to defend the company too, moron, by spouting out insulting inanities. You are such a moron, it is almost painful. You are suggesting Slashdot is to blame for giving the company some free publicity? What a novel concept, a sort of reverse-referral program: "Tell your friends about our compny's products, AND WE'LL BILL YOU FOR THE TROUBLE IT CAUSES US". Maybe their motto should be "DON"T BOTHER US, WE'RE BUSY."
They don't have to worry about that with you though, anonymous fanboy coward, because you have no friends.
As their company sinks into oblivion, they can feel secure knowing that their website won't be stressed because the only dweeb visiting it will be you.
Hell, they are a small company and it really isn't such a big deal. I wish them luck and maybe I'll try out their distro sometime (when they're back online).
but you, fanboy, are an odiously fermenting douchebag.
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