(chinese) you have a government censor your information but you know that it is censored and therefore not the whole truth. (western) you have media networks censor and manipulate your information at their will and benefit but you think you have an objective view about the entire state of the world?
the first is a subset of what is happening in the real world, but it doesn't contradict the whole truth. the second claims to be the whole truth but isn't - and people happily live believe it.
And why should the Hurd be any better? Remember, it's just the kernel, like linux. GNU does the rest of the os for both systems. The desktop stuff is handled by *fill-in-your-favourite-X-session-manager* which will act the same and suck on both systems - sorry to say - I'm down to using sawfish without the gnome-session stuff and am seriously considering relaunching fvwm2... btw: any cool new lightweight window-managers out there?
While we're at it: Why don't we ask apple to add a nifty playlist editor. It would really be nice to be able to use those unused minutes at the bus stop and adapt the playlists to my mood and the weather. I wouldn't cry if they had to make space by getting rid of the quick and dirty implementaion of the block-out-type game...
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Which is better:
(chinese) you have a government censor your information but you know that it is censored and therefore not the whole truth.
(western) you have media networks censor and manipulate your information at their will and benefit but you think you have an objective view about the entire state of the world?
the first is a subset of what is happening in the real world, but it doesn't contradict the whole truth.
the second claims to be the whole truth but isn't - and people happily live believe it.
And why should the Hurd be any better? Remember, it's just the kernel, like linux. GNU does the rest of the os for both systems. The desktop stuff is handled by *fill-in-your-favourite-X-session-manager* which will act the same and suck on both systems - sorry to say - I'm down to using sawfish without the gnome-session stuff and am seriously considering relaunching fvwm2... btw: any cool new lightweight window-managers out there?
While we're at it: Why don't we ask apple to add a nifty playlist editor. It would really be nice to be able to use those unused minutes at the bus stop and adapt the playlists to my mood and the weather. I wouldn't cry if they had to make space by getting rid of the quick and dirty implementaion of the block-out-type game...