[plug] Controversial comparison of distros?

[Chris Caston]

The reason I use Linux is because it is the post popular Open Source
operating system for servers and desktops not because I have any
particular love for UNIX. 

Although Linux is evolving and developing (Gnome, KDE, Evolution,
Mozilla, xine, OpenOffice.org) I think that the masses need to meet us
halfway. There is no point making Linux as easy to use as Windows
because then the people that migrate will lose all the powerful tools. 

I also see that most people don't know about Open Source but if they
aren't a developer than who can blame them? If you don't know how to
read and write C++ then it is functionally the same to you as binary or
ASM.

Open Source needs to be opened up to other areas such as Open Source
music, Open Source design and manufacture, Open Source environmental
planning, Open Source business plans. 

When people are able to adapt and develop their own skills and abilities
using Open Source methodologies then they will grow out of the
crumbling, cumbersome proprietary operating system that has been forced
and blindly lapped up as the defacto standard and look for a powerful
system such as Linux to empower their mind, work, knowledge, discovery
and communities. 

regards,

Chris Caston

Aptitude Technology


On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 16:05, sscott at iinet.net.au wrote:
> Quoting Brad Campbell <brad at wasp.net.au>:
> 
> > Actually, while I'm here..
> > 
> > "Nearly everyone uses Windows, and although people can rabbit on ad 
> > nauseum about how much better Linux is, it doesnt matter."
> 
> And in the real world, mostly it doesnt. Its changing slowly, but I still 
> wouldnt install linux for my mum to use. I cant live without KDE 3 and 
> xinerama, but Im definitely in the minority. In the end, windows 98 works for 
> my mum, does everything she wants it to, and she knows how to use it. Why would 
> I want her to change?
> 
> > 
> > "We" strive to replace windows with linux..
> 
> where appropriate. Anything more would be blind zealotry.
> 
> > 
> > "I" strive to replace rpm with deb.
> > Whats the difference?
> 
> Because a high proportion of linux vendors, and LSB, decided that RPM was the 
> way to go. 
> 
> Get over it and get on with the job. At this point, further division is 
> destructive, reducing your ability to 'strive to replace windows with linux' or 
> whatever it is you do with linux.
> 
> If a client decides that windows will be used for whatever reason, do you stand 
> there and complain? Id hope you would make the best of it and 'strive' to make 
> windows do the job.
> 
> Again, it boils down to the 'means to an end or an end itself' thing.
> 
> Having said that, if you use debian as opposed to Mandrake or whatever, that 
> doesnt affect me one bit so in reality the argument is quite meaningless.
> 
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