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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2005-07-08
I agree partially with the blog/book.
I am also using Linux since 1995. I still remember when Slackware was the distributions of the day.
When the binary format was the a.out with all the quirks to support shared objects. And the transition to ELF format during the year after.
Nowadays I work daily with Linux servers, but my personal laptop has only XP on it, although most of the running software is open source.
Why? Because I as the author got a bit feed up with all the constant changes of Linux development. And my current need to use my desktop as a multimeedia one is not helped by the lack of support from Linux.
We really have to appreciate that Linux is open source, as history has already shown, all close source systems have lost against Windows. Its only the GPL that keeps Linux alive.