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michael
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An anonymous reader notes that OFB has a short blurb about a new Linux distribution, Ark Linux, based on Red Hat and chasing the ever-elusive goal of being "easy to use for the masses".
easy to use linux?
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easy to use linux! what a novel idea, its crazy how nobody has thought of this yet! i'm sure slackware's going to be flattened! whats that you say? this is the year 2003)@#($*)?? REDHAT?! fuck that distro its going to suck.
The whole thing with *NIX that makes it great is that it will never be easy for the masses.
Bill Gates sold his soul by creating easy to use software that reins the user in.
The *NIX people forfeited popularity by building an OS that is intrinsically elitist, in an honest way, like a pro sports league in that the common man can never be good enough to make the team.
The masses MUST stick with Windows. Only the few can play in the Super Bowl.
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easy to use linux! what a novel idea, its crazy how nobody has thought of this yet! i'm sure slackware's going to be flattened! whats that you say? this is the year 2003)@#($*)?? REDHAT?! fuck that distro its going to suck.
I remember something of easy to use linux. It was called Corel Linux something. It kind of disappeared.
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Perhaps because none of the previous wheels have actually been *round* yet.
Open source doesn't necessary have to be "hard for JoeSixpack to use" by definition, but so far it has been.
The whole thing with *NIX that makes it great is that it will never be easy for the masses.
Bill Gates sold his soul by creating easy to use software that reins the user in.
The *NIX people forfeited popularity by building an OS that is intrinsically elitist, in an honest way, like a pro sports league in that the common man can never be good enough to make the team.
The masses MUST stick with Windows. Only the few can play in the Super Bowl.
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