On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 20:50, Don wrote:
Well...let me that this one step further...
As I remember...linux was SUPPOSED to be this big, open source, FREE o/s and supporting tools/utils, FREE to the community, some kind of a FREE throwback to the commune and hippy days....this big community movement to provide a solid FREE environment that was supposed to be more robust that the virus ridden blue screen of death crap we get from someone else.
Linux still is, get it from http://www.kernel.org. Linux is just the kernel remember, you're talking about all the other utilities and nothing has been there to stop commercial close source app's from appearing.
Well....has anyone tried to download a power-PC version of suse? Is anyone watching what's going on in the red hat arena?
Red Hat has always been the way they are now, just have more money to do it. Why should SuSE make a PowerPC version if not enough people will buy it? Leave feedback to SuSE if you want it.
Guess what folks, this stuff is beginning to cost, and cost alot, almost as much as Windoze$. And, I don't see it getting any cheaper.
If you want cheap go Debian or Slackware. Distributions will exist to cater for each and every person, and each has their own pitfalls. Yes prices do increase, but the amount of money flowing in Linux/Open Source has increased considerably.
It would appear that the gratis days are going to be short lived (both power and intel based, etc) and in short order I fear we're going to have to breakout the platinum cards for o/s upgrades...
Always been that way for SuSE for quite awhile, unless you wait for a month for FTP downloads. Yes, the packaged software, with non-free parts will cost money, but you should also expect more (and know that the money you spent will be going to open source projects such as KDE).
What happened to the grand idea that everyone was telling me about?
Its still going strong, if you can separate Linux and all those GNU free Open Source tools from what a distribution is. Of course as the market increases you're going to get commercial non-free non-open source apps appearing, but you are also going to get more Oepn Source applciations gaining strength too. Heck, Novell/SuSE recently Open Sourced Yast.
I think the hook is getting set and the fish are going to be start to be reeled in....
JMHO....I could be wrong....nah...:)
Not entirely wrong :).
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On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, BandiPat wrote:
/rant on
It also seems to me, that if Linux is to become a desktop system, it has to become more user-friendly, not less. If it is only going to be used in the corporate workplace, then probably a lot of these protective devices need to be in place, but if I'm going to use it in my home--without any kids, even--then there should be a simple way to turn most of these protections off. There does not seem to be any real need