Robin, thanks for pointing out this article. <point moved to the top> There should be nothing stopping FOSS from coming up the ultimate solution... Whether that involves using something like Linux Mint, OR using Debian itself to solve is still up for debate in my mind. Yet I am unable to spend the time I want on such a project at this time. <END of point moved to the top>
I have to agree for the most part, with the authors complaint of any bothersome maintenance, especially on feeling the need to have to reinstall to upgrade. Also the growing pains of Linux. It's not like I agree with all he is saying either! For instance he moans there being so many versions of Linux. That's not a problem in itself but confusion due to just to many ways to do things is really a factor. It's simple really. Linux is GREAT the way it is, BUT look at the claims of iXsystems PC-BSD. Then, can GNU/Linux come close or surpass the PC-BSD claims. In the short term I have my doubts. So don't just scratch an your own itch, see the needs and fill them (my biased opinion. Remember with PC-BSD they claim it is easy for both the user who just wants it to work; and the very serious user who wants under the hood (FreeBSD in that case) I would dearly like to hear your cases as to why we should use your preference in OS/distro, etc. at the meeting. Think of "whats in it for me?" (The COSSfest Question for the prospective ticket buyer.) Mel On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 15:10 -0400, Richard Carter wrote: > Hi Folks, > > > This article may be of interest: > http://www.economist.com/node/21551409 > > > Robin > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
