Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 9th Nov 2004 20:49 UTC
"Desktop Linux is almost soup. We only have a few items left on the short list. Will we do it? If history is an indicator, the answer is yes." Read this article at LXer. Read more for a short list of my personal needs before I could say "yes, I can switch to Linux or FreeBSD full time".
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the real problem is that it was a catchup project. it was made to be a unix on PC, free of charge.
Now that no more unix is around they are catching up from windows and Mac. Think windows is better, not at all as they copy apple, be and linux also. This is what bring the post C64 era of BORING!!! computer.
What if ftp is not good, the WHOLE internet TCP stuff is broken. Linux community should try to push free internet by doing a new protocol. Ho crap it's true, nobody do hardware now so they could not do custom modem. That is because company stoped to sell easy to get electronic part at finguer scale. So we get a generation of mechanics lost because they can't fix car and the one that could help them with electronics can't because it's too much integrated now
You see, we are in a dead end with computers. Those that don't want to see it are in serious denial. Just read stuff from computer history since early 1920 and up and you will see that current "advance" are more a building of fortification to trap ourself in an evolutive dead end.
you can't see quicktime or windows file? Just stop using them! Every body hate to resort to many media player that don't offer anything different from each other. Support open system, and when you create one include content protection option so that nobody would complain it lack stuff other system have.
Bring back the OS on a floppy, the 1 wire protocol... stuff like that. Sure sometime cool stuff is made, but most of the time it's to fix a problem that should not even be there in the first place. All those created-by-and-for-computers problem act like noise that screw the "mother of inventivity is creativity" moto. So we got LOT of bright individual having trouble to identify the real problems.
FTP GUI being one as it should never have been an app but an extention of the file system, itself a problem because we should never have transposed the file methaphore in the first place.
Everybody curse flat screwdriver, yet we always buy them in screwdriver kit. Because we have them they make stuff screw with flat head... in the end we all get screw.