I dont consider an "OSI Certified" mark to be any more or less useful (or misleading) than any of the other Certified marks you find, like those bizarre Microsoft "Designed for Windows" ones (if it wasn't designed for Windows, it wouldn't say "Requires Windows" on it!), or stamping seals of approval from a bunch of obscure and subjective magazine reviews.
I am sick to the hind teeth of all this continuous bickering and political infighting.
I fully accept that evangelists such as RMS are necessary to kick start something like the Open Source movement, but I think we can see now that it is rolling and isn't likely to go wrong any time soon.
So what if RedHat, or anyone else decides to try to make a bit of money from it, it's not like we're suddenly wake up and find billg in charge of it.
Chill out and decide which desktop system you prefer using based on it's features and it's style, then use it to do something productive, like code more OSS apps rather than wasting everyone's time "bickering and arguing about who killed who".
I know this is going to draw in some flack, but BeOS is not gaining in popularity. There is an absolute dirth of people releasing quality products for it.
Now that all of the Amiga users that are going to switch have switched and the project has started to lose it's geek-cool ethos, it will probably sink without trace, like so many other fine OSes.
Perhaps you should look at RedHat and you would notice that it does in fact have a whole bunch of window managers just one click of the mouse away from the default fvwm95 yuck fest.
I totally agree with Raster. I like RedHat, but I trust Raster more when it comes to what people want from the distro. Like him, I am not interested in the corporate world's desires for a quick fix to Windows. If Linux is going to start being ruled by the IT managers and bean counters, we are going to find our top OSS programmers turning to something else bleeding edge.
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I dont consider an "OSI Certified" mark to be any more or less useful (or misleading) than any of the other Certified marks you find, like those bizarre Microsoft "Designed for Windows" ones (if it wasn't designed for Windows, it wouldn't say "Requires Windows" on it!), or stamping seals of approval from a bunch of obscure and subjective magazine reviews.
I hardly think that not liking the prompt, the keyboard behaviour are reasons to say it sucks!
Both are facile problems.
Also, GNOME is getting more stable and is almost "there".
This sounds immensely a dodgy hack.
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I think I'll go for the ABit BP-6, but I need to find another Celery 300a PPGA first
100% agreed.
;)
I am sick to the hind teeth of all this continuous bickering and political infighting.
I fully accept that evangelists such as RMS are necessary to kick start something like the Open Source movement, but I think we can see now that it is rolling and isn't likely to go wrong any time soon.
So what if RedHat, or anyone else decides to try to make a bit of money from it, it's not like we're suddenly wake up and find billg in charge of it.
Chill out and decide which desktop system you prefer using based on it's features and it's style, then use it to do something productive, like code more OSS apps rather than wasting everyone's time "bickering and arguing about who killed who".
So there
Ken Thompson is on record as not liking Linux. I cant remember his odd reasons why, but hey, he's a hippy and as we all know, "hippies suck" ;)
Long live Eric Cartman!
I know this is going to draw in some flack, but BeOS is not gaining in popularity. There is an absolute dirth of people releasing quality products for it.
Now that all of the Amiga users that are going to switch have switched and the project has started to lose it's geek-cool ethos, it will probably sink without trace, like so many other fine OSes.
It definitely has been rumbling for a few months, there have been some pointers to that fact on IRC from Raster for quite a while now.
Perhaps you should look at RedHat and you would notice that it does in fact have a whole bunch of window managers just one click of the mouse away from the default fvwm95 yuck fest.
I totally agree with Raster. I like RedHat, but I trust Raster more when it comes to what people want from the distro. Like him, I am not interested in the corporate world's desires for a quick fix to Windows. If Linux is going to start being ruled by the IT managers and bean counters, we are going to find our top OSS programmers turning to something else bleeding edge.