Do a little research before you post. You are thinking of AtheOS, totally unrelated GPL operating system that _does_ have it's own domain (AtheOS.cx) with a webserver running atheos, and it is more stable than some other OS's I could mention - especially when you consider that it is in it's infancy.
He is not saying that there is too much choice - he is saying that all of the distros have too much choice. Everyone is free to use what they want, but 8 terminal emulators is too big of a selection for a user that doesnt' understand _one_ of them. Current distros are mashing everything together into a big ball, rather than engineering a coherent operating system.
I have used Redhat, Slackware, Mandrake, Debian, Suse, Caldera, and others, an not one of them will install "one" terminal application without a vigorous install procedure.
"business users" (which is the market he is refereing to - he said it) do not wnat/need all this crap, even though you do.
c'mon, Hemos, stop and count to ten, and maybe ask someone else before you post the story. Don't just repeat what you read in the article - you should know better than to think that the mainstream media could actually understand this and report it properly. instead of getting everyone in a panic about the kernel being forked, why not post a story about what kind of idiot would write this article, because we all know that the kernel is GPL, and forks are very unlikely (if it's a good patch, why wouldn't Linus paste it in?)
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Dude, I used to work for Xerox. HP drivers are great! (Used to teel customers to use them with some of our equipment, off the record...)
Dr.Whiz-Bang
Do a little research before you post. You are thinking of AtheOS, totally unrelated GPL operating system that _does_ have it's own domain (AtheOS.cx) with a webserver running atheos, and it is more stable than some other OS's I could mention - especially when you consider that it is in it's infancy.
Dr.Whiz-Bang
He is not saying that there is too much choice - he is saying that all of the distros have too much choice. Everyone is free to use what they want, but 8 terminal emulators is too big of a selection for a user that doesnt' understand _one_ of them. Current distros are mashing everything together into a big ball, rather than engineering a coherent operating system.
Dr.Whiz-Bang
I have used Redhat, Slackware, Mandrake, Debian, Suse, Caldera, and others, an not one of them will install "one" terminal application without a vigorous install procedure.
"business users" (which is the market he is refereing to - he said it) do not wnat/need all this crap, even though you do.
Dr.Whiz-Bang
think a little harder.
Dr.Whiz-Bang
c'mon, Hemos, stop and count to ten, and maybe ask someone else before you post the story. Don't just repeat what you read in the article - you should know better than to think that the mainstream media could actually understand this and report it properly. instead of getting everyone in a panic about the kernel being forked, why not post a story about what kind of idiot would write this article, because we all know that the kernel is GPL, and forks are very unlikely (if it's a good patch, why wouldn't Linus paste it in?)