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Dag Wieers Scoffs at Coordinated Linux Release Proposal

Posted by timothy on from the point-five-year-plan dept.

Nic Doye writes "Dag Wieers responds to Mark Shuttleworth's recent request to ask major Enterprise Linux distributions to synchronise releases, claiming that it 'is no more than a wish to benefit from a lot of work that Novell and Red Hat are already doing in the Enterprise space.' He's confessing to playing Devil's Advocate here, but it is an interesting view from someone with a large amount of experience in the Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS space."

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  1. Should we pay attention? by bogaboga · · Score: 0, Troll
    Who the h*** is Dag Wieers? Should we pay attention anyway?

    Maybe I should also write an article so that I can be quoted as "...Bogaboga supports Coordinated Linux release proposal..."

  2. Re:Yea, he wants to benifit - that's the point. by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 0, Troll

    How about you wake up and take a look around.
    Graphics cards, wireless cards, webcams all work much better under windows, because 3rd parties release binary drivers.

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  3. Re:Who really benefits? by Whitemice · · Score: 0, Troll

    Neither distro you mention, IMHO, is targeting home users in the way that Ubuntu is. You don't see friendly smiling people holding hands, one or two clicks to download You've got to be kidding?

    Opensuse.org: Nice front page, three options - I clicked download - then I look at a complex table and it fails the WifeTest(TM) dismally. And why bother. Truth is NOBODY'S WIFE IS DOWNLOADING AND INSTALLING LINUX! If Ubuntu wants to chase some fantasy market, then fine, let them. LINUX is installed by either professionals who know what it is or by geeks. A download page that provides sensible options isn't going to intimidate either of these groups.

    The WifeTest is silly. They don't go to Best Buy and but a copy of XP / Vista, and they don't download LINUX distributions.

    Ubuntu.com: she guessed the right domain, clicked download after looking at the screen for a few minutes, then figured "I must have a standard computer" What she didn't complain about the lack of "laptop" as an option here?

    and started downloading. WifeTest(TM) said she would have bought or requested free CD's except she knew I could burn an ISO for her. Then Ubuntu failed the WifeTest as well, because without you she wouldn't have been able to download and install it.
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