Linked by Thom "Slakje" Holwerda on Fri 25th Jul 2003 19:42 UTC
To me, it's a miracle how every tiny article on OSNews.com, or any other tech-site, ends up in people shouting all sorts of nonsense at each other like "Linux is gonna bring back Elvis", "Windows shot president Kennedy", "Linux kept the cold war cold" or "Bill Gates wants to buy the moon and charge people for looking at it". Do these people really know what they are saying, or are they just going with the Open-Source flow? Update: Rebuttal article here.
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This article is not near perfection. It's a bunch of flames deserved from both sides.
But the interesting point is that geeks gets concerned with the least interesting point which is boot time. Why not fight back the Windows Update comparison? Why not comment on GUI unification? C'mon, and when I read the first post I knew at some point someone would shout the default "but linux is supposed to have 10 years of uptime so slow boot time is no big deal". Then, again, people lost their focus on the subject of the article: desktop linux. When you have to turn on the box to check an e-mail quickly, it's a real pain to wait amanda or the ethernet to warm up.
Having too many incomplete choices is also the same as having none.
Today, we have this good choices: LindowsOS 4 rocks as a desktop enabled OS that is still thousands of miles away from the Windows XP ease of use. And maybe RedHat/SuSe + Ximian Desktop 2 is a good workstation OS. So, forget Gentoo, forget Slackware, forget Mandrake and let's focus on those distros. There's nothing good on having dozens of dozens of uninteresting distros that people assembled just to show up to friends "look, I wrapped up cool new distro". duh.