I agree, speed is important, but the flexibility of Gentoo is amazing.
I tend to refer to Gentoo as a tweaker's dream.
I came from the days before we had useful package management systems in Linux... back when you had to compile all of your packages and dependencies yourself. (X and a window manager sure was a lot of fun to install back then!)
So I remember the time of compiling everything and getting everything properly optimized for your hardware (and other software)... so for me Gentoo is kind of the best of both worlds, package management, but still doing it from source.
The real question is, would TFA author still be complaining about Landscape not being free if it was a company other than Canonical that created it?
Just because a company dedicates 1 of its products as completely open source (Ubuntu)... is it then assumed that that same company must provide all its products as completely open source even if said product is designed to work specifically with their open source product?
In short... I simply see Landscape as a different product offering, and it not being a part of Ubuntu.
Another significant advantage with Linux is that, unlike in Windows, there is no need to worry about security since viruses are very rare, no virus has yet spread successfully on the platform.
And that statement makes me cry.
1. Security is not limited to viruses, and saying there is no need for security just... ya makes me cry.
2. Depending on your exact defination of virus... say if you include worms, saying that no virus has never spread on Linux is simply not true.
I see purpose for all 3 OSs - well maybe not Vista directly, but Windows in general yes. But I really think they should have chosen people that clearly have alot of experience in all 3 OSs - which these people clearly do not.
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I was thinking the exact same thing. My first thought was "if the iTunes store just sold all their songs in a closed-spec ".ipod" format that was only designed to play on iPods then they wouldn't be having this problem."
Anyhow while I disagree with many implementations of DRM, it is somewhat nice to see some positive movement.
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I agree, speed is important, but the flexibility of Gentoo is amazing. I tend to refer to Gentoo as a tweaker's dream. I came from the days before we had useful package management systems in Linux... back when you had to compile all of your packages and dependencies yourself. (X and a window manager sure was a lot of fun to install back then!) So I remember the time of compiling everything and getting everything properly optimized for your hardware (and other software)... so for me Gentoo is kind of the best of both worlds, package management, but still doing it from source.
The real question is, would TFA author still be complaining about Landscape not being free if it was a company other than Canonical that created it? Just because a company dedicates 1 of its products as completely open source (Ubuntu)... is it then assumed that that same company must provide all its products as completely open source even if said product is designed to work specifically with their open source product? In short... I simply see Landscape as a different product offering, and it not being a part of Ubuntu.
Another significant advantage with Linux is that, unlike in Windows, there is no need to worry about security since viruses are very rare, no virus has yet spread successfully on the platform.
And that statement makes me cry.
1. Security is not limited to viruses, and saying there is no need for security just... ya makes me cry.
2. Depending on your exact defination of virus... say if you include worms, saying that no virus has never spread on Linux is simply not true.
I see purpose for all 3 OSs - well maybe not Vista directly, but Windows in general yes. But I really think they should have chosen people that clearly have alot of experience in all 3 OSs - which these people clearly do not.
Its kind of hard to be calling it spamming when Google actually asked people to do this... If you think its stupid, then call google stupid, not the people that participated. http://www.google.com/intl/en_au/events/australiad ay2007/index.html
I was thinking the exact same thing. My first thought was "if the iTunes store just sold all their songs in a closed-spec ".ipod" format that was only designed to play on iPods then they wouldn't be having this problem."
Anyhow while I disagree with many implementations of DRM, it is somewhat nice to see some positive movement.