5 ways linux shoots itself in the foot with the desktop

http://blogs.computerworld.com/14911/
five_ways_the_linux_desktop_shoots_itself_in_the_f oot


He lies about new users not having to ever use a shell but the rest is
pretty frank & damning coming from that linux advocate and now that linus
sees the desktop as a huge unwanted drain of resources ..


The reply from Michael Nelson at the bottom is interesting read to.


Biggles...Z

BigglesZz

"BigglesZz" <> wrote in message
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> http://blogs.computerworld.com/14911/
> five_ways_the_linux_desktop_shoots_itself_in_the_f oot
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> He lies about new users not having to ever use a shell but the rest is
> pretty frank & damning coming from that linux advocate and now that linus
> sees the desktop as a huge unwanted drain of resources ..
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> The reply from Michael Nelson at the bottom is interesting read to.
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This works better:
http://blogs.computerworld.com/14911..._in_the_f oot

Steven J. Vaughan is a nixophiliac favorite who gets paid to make
open-souce mediocrity look...well, ok. So his pointed criticisms of the nix
fanboy club is interesting.

impossible

On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:31:52 +0000, impossible wrote:

> "BigglesZz" <> wrote in message
> news:hcloph$g2c$...
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> This works better:
> http://blogs.computerworld.com/14911/
five_ways_the_linux_desktop_shoots_itself_in_the_f oot
>
> Steven J. Vaughan is a nixophiliac favorite who gets paid to make
> open-souce mediocrity look...well, ok. So his pointed criticisms of the
> nix fanboy club is interesting.

Thanks for the fix ...

Seems it was only a very short term lucid period for the guy .. he is now
claiming ubuntu will clean up with windows7 lmao ...

Biggleszz

BigglesZz