CollegeLinux Released to the Public

YOU ARE SO FIRED! writes "It seems that the Swiss Robert Kennedy College (with the aptly named website) has released CollegeLinux, a Linux distribution based off of Slackware, to the public. If only my employees could've used this in school - I wouldn't have to fire them so much! See the interview with the dean of the school for more information."

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FUCK YEAH!

[Anonymous Coward]

YOU rule.

And that is why OS X will ultimately beat Linux

[ShatteredDream]

I used to love Linux but I got sick and tired of how stuck in the past Linux is. KDE, GNOME, the various popular WMs, let's face it... they can't hold a candle to OSX on the desktop. I have no doubt that many will choose Linux because they're such cheapskates that they'd rather spend $500-$1500 for a PC running Linux than several thousand for a quality PowerMac or PowerBook. But those of us who spend more time using our systems than tinkering with them will probably almost always choose OSX over Linux. The simple reality is that Linux sucks as a desktop. Trying to make Linux a desktop OS is like trying to make an octapus by nailing more legs onto a dog.

Many of the crackheads that think Linux is a great desktop right now need a reality check. Linux doesn't:

• Easily and cleanly add new hardware devices on the fly in an interactive manner when necessary
• Autodetect and mount new partitions the way OSX and Windows do. When you add a new drive to OSX that it can read it's useable right then and there. With Linux you have to usually hack /etc/fstab
• Have a single, consistent or mostly consisten user interface.
• Make updating as easy as a few mouse clicks for John Q. Citizen.

There are more issues as well, not the least of which is the Linux developers' love affair with C and PERL (and occassionally C++). Most Linux users just don't get it. The average person using a computer makes a mouse look like it has the bravery of a Navy SEAL. If people get scared jumping from Office 2000 to Office XP then they'll be typically terrified of Windows->Linux. Apple is first and foremost a platform provider. If OpenOffice and other great OSS dominate its desktop then they really won't give a rat's ass. I'm sure that if Apple were not quite so much under Microsoft's thumb then they'd be actively engaged in porting OpenOffice. Linux won't liberate the desktop, OpenOffice and Chandler will. If you seriously do like Linux as a desktop then fine. There's no reason the market has to be controlled by any one UNIX be it Linux or OS X. Linux advocates need to realize though that in order for OSS to cover all of its bases, OS X must be a strong and viable platform. Every user that abandons the Microsoft plantation for a new UNIX running OO, etc is a user advancing the cause of personal freedom in computing.

No

[ece]

I wouldn't for your kind anyway