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The State of GNU/Linux in 2002: It was Good.

Posted by michael on from the well-duh dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This year has proven most interesting for GNU/Linux. While there was not any amazing surprises, there were numerous events that are noteworthy for review. The upshot to all of this is that most of what happened was good overall for the Free Software community. Read the full story."

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  1. Re:Fonts That Don't Suck! by rseuhs · · Score: -1, Redundant
    Next we need to radically cut the number of choices that the average user needs to make at install-time (Gee, which of the following 87 libraries should I install? And what the hell is a library anyway?)

    In SuSE you have 4 choices: Minimal system without graphics, KDE-workstation, KDE-workstation with openoffice (default) and customized.

    This is (again) the proof that no matter how easy Linux is, there are still people complaining that it's hard.

    We don't need to make Linux easier (it already is if you use SuSE or Mandrake) we need to tell people about it.