[wellylug] Forking Linux.

[Donald Gordon]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:09:09 +1300, Enkidu <enkidu at cliffp.com> wrote:
> 
> Is it time to fork the Linux concept?
> 
> There are lot of linux people whose concept of Linux begins and ends
> with the desktop/WM/GUI. There are many who consider the
> desktop/WM/GUI to be a total waste of disk space. 

Is it time to fork the Windows concept?

There are lot of windows people whose concept of Windows begins and ends
with the desktop/WM/GUI. There are many who consider the
desktop/WM/GUI to be a total waste of disk space.

Is it time to fork the LUG concept?

There are lot of LUG people whose concept of Linux begins and ends with
Mandrake and Fedora/Deadrat. There are many who consider Mandrake and
Fedora/Deadrat to be a total waste of disk space. 

Answers, to all three: no.

> The GUI-Linuxers wouldn't know what to do without their Windows
> surrogate (OK - trolling just a tad, eh?) Many text-only Linuxers find
> a depressingly increasing number of essential tools coming only in GUI
> flavours.

I don't.  Which essential tools only come in GUI flavours?  And do you
know *anyone* who uses a *nix system purely in text mode?

> Should we split into GUI-Linux and TUI-Linux? The GUIers could then
> concentrate on improving and incorporating the GUI concept into all
> aspects of Linux, while test TUIers could concentrate on the fast
> clean aspects that only a text console allows.

If you want Windows, you know where to find it.  And if you want someone
to maintain your Windows system, you know where to find them, too :-)

> In future when asked what Linux you run, you could possibly answer
> "SuSe Gnome-Linux" or "Mandrake KDE-Linux" or "Debian Text-Linux".

Eeeew.

How about

"Fedora Windows-Linux" and "Mandrake DOS-Linux"...

donald