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Negroponte says Linux too 'Fat'
Cadef writes "According to a story on CNet News.com, Nicholas Negroponte says that Linux has gotten too fat, and will have to be slimmed down before it will be practical for the $100 laptop project. From the article: 'Suddenly it's like a very fat person [who] uses most of the energy to move the fat. And Linux is no exception. Linux has gotten fat, too.'"
Yeah, apparently these clowns have never heard of the idea of a custom install. KDE too big? Use FVWM, Enlightenment, or one of the others that claim to be lighter weight. Too many options in the kernel? Compile your own. You can get a Linux install on just about anything, for christ sakes they use Linux in embedded devices.
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And is anyone else sick an tired of hearing about these mythical $100 laptops? First off, they're not even going to be $100, so stop calling them the $100 laptop. Second, how stupid is it to believe that someone without electricity is going to sit there with a frickin' foot pedal, hand crank (or any other half assed contraption for generatinf power that they can come up with) and surf the web? I like their idea of how the users will get Internet access, "Don't worry, it'll work itself out". It just seems like there are sooooooo many gaps in this plan, and they still figure that it'll roll in 2007? I call major bullshit.
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I feel better now.