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The Linux Identity Crisis

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wants-to-be-called-linuxette-now dept.

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."

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  1. My Vote by baldass_newbie · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    1. Re:My Vote by Nerdfest · · Score: 4, Funny

      Joke found [Accept or Cancel].

  2. another option by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:another option by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    2. Re:another option by upside · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

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    3. Re:another option by Col.+Klink+(retired) · · Score: 4, Funny

      > 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.

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  3. Re:Don't bother reading it by Anonymous+Custard · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.
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  4. Re:Don't bother reading it by organgtool · · Score: 4, Funny

    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".