Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 15th Apr 2007 20:11 UTC
"We're now more than a decade later than the moment when I judged the open source to have gained a decisive momentum - 1996-1997, when Slackware was the reference, Red Hat was 'the other choice', KDE and GNOME were just emerging, Walnut Creek was selling CD-ROMs, and SunSITE mirrors were the home of most of the relevant software. The worst thing that happened was that Yggdrasil Linux died. But the Earth kept spinning..." Read the rest of the editorial at TheJemReport.
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The tone of the article reminds me of the Four Yorkshiremen more than anything; the author seems to spend quite a bit of time bitterly ranting about how things are not how they were in the Good Old Days.
He takes a whole page moaning about Compiz and Beryl, for no discernable reason other than he doesn't like them and thinks everyone should use Fluxbox. Well that's fine, and I think it's a brilliant strength of Linux that such things are available, but having a 3D window manager too isn't going to make them less stable. If they're superior, they will prove themselves so. If everyone thought Compiz was as horrible as he does, it wouldn't exist.