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Hackers on Linux's Exciting Desktop Future
Gentu writes "OSNews features two interviews with prominent open source developers: Robert Love started working at Ximian this week and he will be leading the 'effort to improve the Linux desktop experience via kernel development'. In this Q&A, he explains what he will be working on hardware integration, freedesktop.org's D-BUS & HAL, low latency optimizations, power management, X & 3D and a 'Linux answer to WinFS'. The second interview is with Red Hat's Owen Taylor. Owen speaks of GTK+ development and where he sees the project going in the Gnome 3 timeframe: freedesktop.org's new X server, Cairo support, GTK#, OpenGL & other widgets and more."
"So what should replace it?"
Fedora... open source like Debian. Up to date and with the times.
I could make a long list, but it would be redundant.
"Why is it the worst?"
Debian exchanges stability for usability. No one wants to spend days installing and setting up a box (upgrading the distro to where it should be) just to get up and running on Linux.
"It's easy to sit around and say something sucks"
No it isn't because anyone who disaggrees with the pro-Debian mafia on Slashdot gets slammed as a flamebait or troll. Talk about being biased.
Tangent....
I remember Taco use to be a Suse fan. What are you using today Taco? Are you a Debian zealot now too?
Debian zealots you need to mod this one up. He posted something politically correct about Debian.
"As a Debian user fairly new to Linux"
A fairly new Linux user using Debian.... Liar
Debian and Slackware are the past, the 90s, the fond memories of the early days, they are relics.
Sure we all loved them but times they are a changing.
Fedora and Gentoo are the distributions of the future.
Damn you, Roydd. Should've known you were signed in on my computer.