The Linux Identity Crisis

Jayze Calrtini writes "From an article from ZDNet:"If you've been following the current rift in the Linux community between Linus Torvalds and his minions squaring off against Con Kolivas and the mainstream Linux fanatics, you probably know that it's getting quite heated. You also probably know that these two entirely different ideas could create three possible paths Linux can take for the future: stay geeky and appeal to the advanced tech guru in all of us; go mainstream and leave the advanced functionality and reliable kernel behind to compete with Microsoft and Apple; or face a "civil war" that could lead to total Linux annihilation."

Comments

My Vote

[baldass_newbie]

I vote for total annihilation.
I mean, with Vista, who cares about Linux anymore?

Re:My Vote

[Eggplant62]

Heh. Right, Vista is just *sooo* much better, with it's restrictive interface, DRM nonsense, and overall bloat.

No thanks, I'll pass on that pile of doo doo.

Re:My Vote

[Nerdfest]

Joke found [Accept or Cancel].

another option

[Anonymous Coward]

Come on over to *BSD. We're the 'big tent' OS. Room for everyone.

Don't like the direction the kernel is going? Branch the kernel and call it MyBSD. Whatever, no one is going
to get pissed.

Linux folks take themselves WAY too seriously, and besides, *BSD has a 'cool' factor with the chicks that
Linux will never have. You should see the honeys flock to me when I sport my FreeBSD tshirt.

Come on in to BSD, boys, the water is fine.

Re:another option

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, beacuse *BSD with its useless SMP support will make the arguments moot anyway. It's slow for everyone.

Re:another option

[upside]

True. My wife made me install Linux over BSD when I got married. She couldn't cope with the attention I was getting. I miss the chilled attitude of the BSD people like Theo.

Re:another option

[Col. Klink (retired)]

> Whatever, no one is going to get pissed.

The thing I like about Linux is the GPL, but I guess I can just add the GPL to MyBSD.

Re:another option

[Danathar]

Why would I want to use an operating system that has been dead for years? ;-)

Re:another option

[Anonymous Coward]

Totally true about the chick factor. Feel free to confirm the following with any females that you may know.

They see the BSD demon on a t-shirt, they think...

"Oh, the devil, he's a REBEL and he'll never be any good. I think I want to have uninhibited, no-strings-attached sex with him."

When they see the fat little puffin (or is that a penguin, I can never tell) -

"Hmm, a portly penguin. That's kind of effeminate, he must be a homosexual."

Three outcomes?

[Tribbin]

I think I go for the fourth outcome:

Really good make-up sex between the parties.

Re:Three outcomes?

[Hanners1979]

Considering the probable male to female ratio of said parties, I think I'll pass on that one...

Re:Three outcomes?

[dvice_null]

You forgot to post that anonymously.

Re:Don't bother reading it

[Anonymous Custard]

Total waste of time; prevalence of this crap on Digg is why I stopped reading it, and now Slashdot isn't too far behind it seems. Digg has a "Bury" button.

Slashdot needs a "Chop up and feed to the pigs out back" button.

Re:Don't bother reading it

[organgtool]

Slashdot needs a "Chop up and feed to the pigs out back" button.

Slashdot has had this button for years - it's just been mislabeled as "Submit".

Re:Desktop Linux is not just 3D games

[Slashcrap]

You make me sick with your intelligent, well reasoned and above all, technically correct arguments. You should know by now that we don't tolerate that kind on thing on Slashdot.

But I also wonder what percentage of the people being so vocal about the CK affair are just ricers who build everything with CFLAGs set to "-O9 -fomit-instructions" just in case it give them an extra .1 FPS in glxgears. Or are actually running Linux at all for that matter.