lycoris

[Michael Hipp]

Well, I really thought this was the start of something good also. 'Til
they got to the desktop part.

But seems to me they've made our lives easier. That's just 4 distros I
no longer have to consider in my search for the right one.

I better get busy learning RedHat!

Michael


dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:

> begin  Kurt Wall's  quote:
> 
> | Still optimistic, dep? I, for one, am glad *that's* over. Nothing
> | like having my hope clubbed to death like a baby seal to start my
> | day off right. I should have known better. Once again, Caldera has
> | snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Fscking amazing.
> 
> still optimistic? but of course! there will still be linux, and there 
> will still be a community, and all the geniuses who have thusfar 
> totally screwed up will continue to do so, and linux will in that 
> sphere achieve all the power and prestige of AIX, and the companies 
> will draw the wrong conclusions. i *am* red-faced for having given 
> them too much credit -- they went *out of their way* to say that the 
> companies are *prohibited* from producing a "unitedlinux" desktop 
> distribution. as with the release of caldera 3.0, if they would have 
> just shut the hell up, maybe thrown a bone to the community in the 
> form of isos, it might have been okay. but, if you remember, when 3.0 
> was released they first said something about business only, no isos, 
> per-seat licensing -- in otherwords, "desktop people: go to hell," 
> and they ended up retracting or weaseling around much of it, but by 
> then the damage was done. today, they gratuitously dissed the linux 
> community, and there lies a world of hurt. but what is so 
> mindbogglingly stupid about it is *they didn't have to! they gained 
> nothing by doing it!* and the damage is done. they could send CDs out 
> by bulk mail, aol-style, and it probably wouldn't fix the stuff they 
> broke today for no reason at all.
> 
> the whole thing, the conference call, was chillingly reminiscent of 
> the rollout of OS/2, in which a multitude of things that never 
> happened were announced. the companies were all lined up to cheerlead 
> (it should be noted that several mentioned that they were certainly 
> sticking to their associations with red hat, too), at what amounts to 
> no cost to them. so yeah, the linux equivalent of the hindenburg was 
> launched today. oh, the humanity!
> 
> but just because four makers of not-all-that-good distributions 
> decided to leave the loop for the circle jerk, we needn't despair. 
> the decks have been cleared. debian will still don its hooded cloaks 
> and hold its secret blood rituals; slack is actually doing things 
> that make it bright and modern and very possibly the best desktop 
> distro; lycoris is showing promise, as are a couple of others; and 
> there may now be even more reason to build to the skippy standard, 
> which really *could* turn out being the best desktop distro ever.
> 
> | That's the last time I cross *my* fingers.
> 
> hey. we crossed ours. they raised one of theirs. i'd rather be in our 
> position than theirs.
> -- 
> dep
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