Deciding On The Future of Linux

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Deciding On The Future of Linux

Posted by Hemos on Sunday October 6, 2002 @05:11AM from the where-oh-where-shall-the-future-go dept.

A reader writes: The Free Standards Group has posted a request for feedback, now that they have completed LSB 1.2 and li18nux is also finished. Where should they/we go next? "

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Excuse me? by evocate · 2002-10-06 05:20 · Score: 5, Funny

Did they just ask "where do you want to go today?"
1. Re:Excuse me? by fshalor · 2002-10-06 05:30 · Score: 3, Funny
  It's a valid quesiton.
  
  With the descision waning on whether to go with 3.0 for a "big news" incriment or be lost with 2.6 (my vote)
  
  With the evolution of Mac OS X into a very good alternate solution to Windows, and potentially portable to the x86...
  
  With the pending evolution of current x86 architectures...
  
  I'd say asking is valid.
  
  At least we'll actually get a say. I hate M$'s rhetorical catch phrase. "Where do you want to go today?"
  
  That you wont get to without spending more money.
  
  That you will get compromised going to becasue the WU site isn't using FTP and isn't finishing downloads and won't resume partial downloads.
  
  That you could go yesturday, but we're sorry we can't boot today becasue the ntoskern's corrupt.
  
  (And the final quantifyer:) As long as it's where we tell you.
  
  -=fshalor
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  -=fshalor ::this post not spellchecked. move along::
Where should they go next? by XNormal · 2002-10-06 05:22 · Score: 4, Funny

On vacation.

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Linux Standard Base? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-06 05:23 · Score: 4, Funny

If these folks were real coders instead of marketroids trying to jump into the Linux bandwagon, they'd know that the LSB acronym is already taken. Sorry folks but LSB will always mean "Least Significant Bit".
Re:Universal Copy/Cut&Paste by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-06 05:29 · Score: 1, Funny

That's a good way to annoying windows converts - the first time they try to copy and paster something they'll end up doing some system level stuff.

Ctrl-C : Flash BIOS.
Ctrl-V : Shutdown.

That'll teach them!
Open Source Tux by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-06 05:32 · Score: 1, Funny

Decode A Penguins Gene Sequence and embed it in to the kernel.
Where to go next. by MyHair · 2002-10-06 05:32 · Score: 2, Funny

Disneyland!
Re:debian & gentoo are not the answers by NoMoreNicksLeft · 2002-10-06 05:58 · Score: 5, Funny

I agree completely. Applications shouldn't need to install any libraries at all. And I won't stand for the half-assed hack that would result either, where coders roll library functionality into the app itself, bloating it's size.

God-fucking-dammit, isn't it about time we had magical depenencies? Where the computer uses it's psychic abilities to create this depenency code on the fly, pulling it out of its ass or something? It's ridiculous, when you think about it. Who ever in their right mind has ever walked up to you and said "you know, to run Word, you need windows and a fuckload of DLLs already loaded and running!" It just doesn't happen, my friends. Why, because Windows already has Micro$oft Magical Library Generator XP, which creates them on the fly. And sure, if sometimes it is just random code that locks the CPU, isn't it worth it?

Damn, sarcastic mode is exhausting. BTW, mgkmsal2, you're one of the biggest slashtards I've ever seen here. Ever play with windows, and have it go spastic, wanting to know which version of the DLL you'll keep? Every operating system has this problem. If you don't like it, don't install software. Wanting your cake and eating it too, makes for really lame whining...
Re:Go for 3D interfaces by NoMoreNicksLeft · 2002-10-06 06:02 · Score: 3, Funny

Retard boy, hold on to that suggestion, for when they ask the "where do we want to go with X" article.

Linux is not the windowing system, whether your choice is X or one of the alternatives to it.
Re:dependency-hell by Zaiff+Urgulbunger · 2002-10-06 07:31 · Score: 2, Funny

Erm, how about:

/apf

Which as any 1337 *nix head will immediately guess, stands for "Apf is similar to Program Files"!
Re:This is a corrigendum by philovivero · 2002-10-06 10:29 · Score: 4, Funny
I can't see why the FSF is trying to become the new Linux authority. First they've tried to claim that much of Linux was written by GNU, this is not true, I put to you, they tried changing Linux to GNU/Linux. Notice that GNU is placed before the word Linux, this implies a strong bias towards the former entity.
You are so right! Richard Stallman, in his blatent use of English (putting the adjective before the noun my ass. Ask the French and Spanish what they think of this abhorrent practice!) has shown his true colours.
Linus has pronounced that from now on, in all comments, the adjective must follow the noun, like so:
- Linux GNU
- Car red
- Child small
- Parent poster silly
Please immediately start following this method new of modifying nouns when speaking English. Don't let your megalomania be the demise of you. All programmers Source Open must like Yoda be.
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