it's old, therefore it's no good anymore :-P (I'm about your age too!)

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On 02/17/2012 01:57 AM, Leslie S Satenstein wrote:
> 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.
>  
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>
>
> --- 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] </mc/[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.
>          
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>         </mc/[email protected]>
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>         </mc/[email protected]>
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>
>
>         --- On *Wed, 2/15/12, Andre Courchesne
>         /<[email protected]
>         </mc/[email protected]>>/* wrote:
>
>
>             From: Andre Courchesne <[email protected]
>             </mc/[email protected]>>
>             Subject: Re: [MLUG] Blog entry on the MLUG listserve website.
>             To: "Montreal Linux Users Group" <[email protected]
>             </mc/[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]
>>             <http://mc/[email protected]>
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>>             <http://mc/[email protected]>
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