Hello, This mail has nothing to do with the relative merits of Linux distributions.
On Thu, 03 Jul 2008, benjamin wrote: > "On the Web, If You're Not Growing, You're Dying" > http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/06/on-web-if-youre-not-growing-youre-dying.html This is the (IMHO) flawed philosphy of "Trend mongering" that leads people/companies/programs to want to grab more and more. What happened to the Unix philosphy of doing one thing and doing it really well? If the program is a web browser, it should be a web-browser and not try to be a film-viewer, mail-reader, editor, programming interface etc. etc. The surrounding O/S (kernel+libraries) should provide reasonable ways for these different programs to pass the relevant objects to the program that (according to a choice made by the user) handles them best. When Seamonkey/Iceape became Firefox/Iceweasel it became _smaller_ and avoided dying. The most complaints about FF3 have been regarding the features that have been _added_ to it. The most kudos for FF3 have been about how it uses _less_ memory and time than FF2. Motto: Removing bugs is more valuable than adding features. Regards, Kapil. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
