[wellylug] Forking Linux.

Enkidu enkidu at cliffp.com
Thu Nov 11 10:13:08 NZDT 2004


On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:40:48 -0800 (PST), you wrote:

>
>> Windows is the sort of thing I was thinking of. Someone said to me the
>> other day that they were running Linux and I asked what sort. "KDE"
>> was the reply. Obviously this is both good and bad. (Said person did
>> click to what they had just said and named the distro which is between
>> "Linux" and "Network" in the dictionary). Made me think.
>> 
>
>Great news IMO.
>
And bad... It means that Linux/GNU/KDE, whatever you want to call the
GUI front-ended Linux, has got so Windows-like that people are
treating it like Windows.

I betchadupa that those M boxes not to mention DeadRat and Sooky boxes
*never* will get patched, and we'll have viruses sprouting everywhere.

Cheers,

Cliff




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