[wellylug] Forking Linux.

[Pete Black]

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

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>>>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.
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>>Great news IMO.
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>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.
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>I betchadupa that those M boxes not to mention DeadRat and Sooky boxes
>*never* will get patched, and we'll have viruses sprouting everywhere.
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>Cheers,
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>Cliff
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And maybe if the people who were skilled with Linux weren't so 
condescending, and helped the distros make it easier for people to keep 
their systems patched, we could avoid the problem altogether.

I use 'Deadhat' myself, among other distributions, not because i'm 'too 
clueless' to use Debian/Gentoo/Slackware, but because I like what Redhat 
offers, in terms of polish and relative simplicity. This kind of elitist 
rhetoric is simply not constructive.