Ubuntu & Linspire

[Howard Coles]

On 2/8/07, Joe Hart <j.hart at orange.nl> wrote:
>
>
> Well, that to me is the straw that broke the camel's back.  I'm all for
> the advancement of Linux and of it gaining popularity, but I was already
> leary of the way they were heading...trying to remove the command line
> from Linux is just as bad as Windows 95 taking away DOS.
>
> Perhaps I have just grown out of the hand-holding of the community.  I
> don't want things easier because that makes them transparent.  Perhaps
> Debian itself is a better alternative.  At least that community is the
> one that is doing most of the work, and THEY know when things are
> stable.  The only downside is that they support too many different
> architectures that hold them back.  There are others...
>
> Let Ubuntu/Mepis/Linspire/Mint be for the new converts.  The real
> hackers won't run them anyway.  You want good information, you need to
> turn to Debian and since Dapper, compatibility with Debian has been
> waning.  Dapper is good, Edgy is OK, but I am afraid that Feisty will
> never make it on my computer.
>
> Do I hear Sid calling?  Perhaps Gentoo is knocking on the door...
> The beauty of Linux is to be able to choose.  I choose control over my
> computer.
>
> The beauty of Linux lies in the fact that there is a distribution for
> everyone.  I wish all of you the best of luck.
>

Whoa, guy.  Relax, Ubuntu is still Debian based, which means all the command
line utils you love are still there.  I run Debian SID, and Kubuntu.  I'm
not all hung up on the proprietary thing, so for me Kubuntu just works
better because I can easily install nVidia's Driver for example.

The tone I hear, however, is that if its easy its evil.  My question is what
the heck is wrong with easy?  The greater majority of Computer users out
there could care less how one works, all they care about is that it does
work.  My wife, for example, could care less about how Linux does what it
does, or about configuring some obscure driver.  All she knows is that it
doesn't have to be rebooted, and she can do what she wants without it
crashing.

So, what this CNR will do, is bring both worlds together.  The apt-get
command lines, and config files are all still there for the Hackers, and
Techs, and the Point and Click stuff is there for the users.  The fact that
both work is a good thing to me.

-- 
See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
John 3:16!
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