[Way OT]: Re: So Long, SuSE, We Hardly Knew Ye!

[Rick Sivernell]

On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:06:00 +0800
Chong Yu Meng <chongym at cymulacrum.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 15:46 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> > I have to use RH at work, and I keep a
> > CentOS partition on my home system for compatibility, but I don't have
> > a need for ancient software (RHEL/CentOS) and FC is frequently just
> > too bleeding edge. 
> 
> I thought the US was all about diversity, the melting pot and all
> that? :) One thing that has always amused me about Americans is that
> they frequently assume that people from other cultures and countries
> think the same way they do and use the same things that they use, in the
> very same ways. 
> 
> I use FC6 on my laptop, FC5 on my servers and, over the course of many
> years, have maintained and setup servers running a range of Linuxes,
> from Slackware to little-known distros like Probatus Spectra and
> Turbolinux. I don't use either KDE or Gnome, and instead use Xfce
> because of its resemblance to CDE (it was this desktop environment that
> had me enamored with UNIX way back in the days of Windows 3.1 -- I find
> too many icons and doodads on the desktop distracting). Sometimes the
> choice of distro and desktop environments has less to do with "what
> works" or even the prevailing sentiment in newsgroups and mailing lists.
> For example, Turbolinux was once a very popular distro in China, Japan
> and parts of Asia where default double-byte support was crucial (not
> everyone speaks English). 
> 
> Another funny thing is the proselytizing bent of most Americans. When I
> was much younger, I was educated in a school that was founded by an
> American missionary, and our school library had a pretty extensive
> collection of books about US history and the US government system
> (checks and balances, 3 branches, etc., I still remember it all).
> Americans think that there can be but one world view, one "best way" of
> doing things, one system of government, etc. One "best" desktop
> environment and one "best" operating system are just another expression
> of this. 
> 
> Well, I don't eat cereal for breakfast, don't drive to work -- and even
> if I did, it would be on the "wrong" side of the road, by American
> standards -- and we use the metric system here, not Imperial, and I
> spell colour with a 'u', Microsoft spell-check be damned! There are 300
> million Americans, but more than 1.3 billion Chinese in China. Seen in
> that perspective, don't the distro wars, KDE vs Gnome, and vi vs emacs
> seem just a little trivial and irrelevant ? ;)
> 
> Regards,
> pascal chong
> 
Pascal

  Yes they do, many times this American uses colour too. What you said above is
true for the mass of Americans, who just do not care what is going on around them.
There are those who do, have been and lived overseas. There is only one thing,
our standards, the good one please, Freedom and Liberty to choose bu the
individual. I have lived in Hong Kong, and at that time could not pass over the
border into China. I could and would if the opportunity came about to travel
there, in a heart beat. The people, the culture, the history and the mystique.


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Rick Sivernell
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