DISQUS

Just awesome!!!!

In a free society everyone can produce. That explains what we see, the hundreds of distros. This is a flaw in the sense that there isn't one single choice (although Ubuntu is doing a lot to fill that niche), but it has the benefit that everyone can work on what's important to them. Personal creativity and producing for the mass market just don't go hand in hand. If you were working on a project that's important to you, would you be willing to give up your own ideas and goals for the so called greater whole even if that means working in a context where you'll never get to realize what you really want?

There are projects doing this, the big ones like KDE. But the central issue here is about individuality and social organization.

Fundamentally, comparing linux to Windows or Mac and pointing your finger to the ui saying "look, a unified interface" misses the point in a big way. The goal of linux is not to be a clone of Windows, and the tradeoff between unity and anarchy is what effectively gives us both, at the cost that the whole desktop will never be completely unified. KDE is working quite hard at making this happen, but it will and can only collected kde/qt apps under that umbrella.

We have a ton of music players, each of which takes a different direction and comes up with different features. You can idealize this and say we should throw all of them out and just everyone work on one, make it really great. But the one player will not have the sum of the features of all the others, nor will it develop that cumulative feature set at the pace that all these separate projects can do in parallel.

Personally, I find the prospect of linux being more like Mac a ghastly one. Taking Windows/Mac as a standard asking why linux isn't more like it is one way of looking at it. But you could just as well go the opposite way. If you ask me things are more as they should be on this side than the corporate side.

Is it reliable? I've noticed some of these downloaders have a fun way of timing out the download if the connection is lost and it won't tell you that the download isn't complete.

Of course, this is not a rare or unusual story at all. All of us former Windows users have seen this lots and lots of times. Why people who come to linux can't tolerate similar troubles in their first goddamn week is beyond me. People forget too quickly I think.

You printed the pdf and hung it on the wall, didn't you? :D

That is absolutely amazing. They demand a password just so you can get rid of the bitch. What incredible audacity!

Just to preempt the thousands of questions. No, that is not Rami himself :D

I see you've begun reading the unix system documentation :D

It's a trick. People always do what they're not supposed to do. :D

That's cool, but what are you gonna do with those urls in your terminal? :)

Your level of interest in digg is disturbing...

Man, you are becoming so pro at this! :star:

Looking good!

Looking forward to your thorough workup ;)

Bunch of good reasons right there. :D

Dude, that's a pretty sweet analysis :D

What are you's all teasing the joker character? go try act that yourself...

Thinnest laptop ever is a Sharp:
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9852240-7.html...

The prollem with wicd is that it ignores wired networks. And I kinda need both interchangably.

Boy, for someone trying to appear not to be a total geek you sure talk the talk. :D

Btw this reminds of a fantastic "missionary guide" I found on the web once. It had a lot of the same advice, don't be pushy etc. But it also had one golden nugget your list doesn't have, namely as the last point in the list it said "But remember: you are not God, you only speak for him" :D

I'll be expecting a review :D