I understood that the underlying engine was Linux, but the author was discussing the gui interface. The newer interface is the pits as far as I am concerned. I work with it because I believe I will have to adapt, or become a dinosaur. Shucks, is there something wrong with Gnome 2 interfaces. I think not. ------------------
Regards Leslie Mr. Leslie Satenstein 50 years in IT and going strong. Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day, and tomorrow will be even better. mailto:[email protected] alternative: [email protected] www.itbms.biz --- On Thu, 2/16/12, Nicholas Accad <[email protected]> wrote: From: Nicholas Accad <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MLUG] Blog entry on the MLUG listserve website. To: "Montreal Linux Users Group" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012, 3:00 PM Not to start an argument here Leslie, but I think you missed the point of the ZD article. They are not talking about the death of Linux on the desktops but rather the death of the "distribution" concept. His logic is that nowadays, people do not care if they using RedHat, Ubuntu, SuSE or whatever, but they care about what their desktop looks like, i.e., GNOME vs KDE vs XFCE vs whatever. His analysis used Android, which is both a distribution and a desktop environment at this point, and comparing it to the new Mozilla project and how these two are not compatible. His point is this, if I am using a Phone running *Linux*, whatever this Linux is, it should not matter if I am running Android or Gecko, which is exactly what *most* distros are at this point: It does not matter which distro you are using, GNOME looks more or less the same, and you have approximately the same kind of applications. I am not saying I agree, I just wanted to clarify his POV as I understood it. -nick On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Leslie S Satenstein <[email protected]> wrote: http://mlug.ca/cms/en/blog/ziff-davis-publication-death-desktop-linux for my article and and the article http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/the-death-of-the-linux-distro/18152 Authored by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes ------------------ Regards Leslie Mr. Leslie Satenstein 50 years in IT and going strong. Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day, and tomorrow will be even better. mailto:[email protected] alternative: [email protected] www.itbms.biz --- On Wed, 2/15/12, Andre Courchesne <[email protected]> wrote: From: Andre Courchesne <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MLUG] Blog entry on the MLUG listserve website. To: "Montreal Linux Users Group" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 9:30 AM You have a link on the article ? On 2012-02-15, at 9:29 AM, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: I was very upset about a ZD article, death of the Linux distro. I wrote a rebuttal. Any one like to comment? Should it go on the mlug facebook page? ------------------ Regards Leslie Mr. Leslie Satenstein 50 years in IT and going strong. Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day, and tomorrow will be even better. mailto:[email protected] alternative: [email protected] www.itbms.biz _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
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