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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.
Because everyone knows that Gnome blows.
Helloooo! McFly!!!!
This is 2002 !!
Linux is sooo last century !!!
Slashup is basically the manchester united football supporters of the internet:
[netscape is good]
[time passes...]
[Microsoft IE is good ]
Why not go the whole way? Linux is a hobbyist platform.
I've deliberatly used meept as my subject to test the moderators on this.
If slashup is a true open source advocate, then why not go back to the old cmdrtaco days with 1000 unique ip's and tell everyone that IE is bad, and we should all switch to the opensource platform of gecko?
Why? Because , slashup's logs now show IE accounts for 90% of their web logs.
Tell us (IE converts) that IE is bad. Go back to your meept roots.
Also, tell osdn employees that they shoudn't post to slashup, as that looks like you're trying to inflate figures.
I don't believe journalists. I believe slashup. If they tell me that IE is good, then I'll use that. IE only runs on windows. Therefore Slashup tells me to run windows.
Convert me to the browser, and you'll convert me (back) to the O/s.
As a slashup reader, do you think that I care about a journalist's view of opensource? No! I only care about slashup's view of opensource.
This website is shooting itself in the foot.
Me.
As an end user, I definatly prefer OSX over any Linux distro. Its easy to use, powerful, and best of all.. the interface is amazing. KDE, even in its latest stages still looks like an amatur piece of trash made by some 9th grader. Flame me all you want, but Aqua is leagues above that. Not to mention the support by 3rd parties. Office... Photoshop 7 and Illustrator.. truely amazing. Oh and best of all, OSX is powered by BSD which in many people's eyes is the real UNIX core. I'll take BSD over Linux anyday.