"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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Member since:2005-07-06
PS No - I haven't read the article yet, at lunch, don't have time for a long winded gas bag by an old guy reminiscing on old times long since gone.
Do not dis the good old days..
I remember I could get a taxi to the cinema, buy 24 beers, a packet of cigars, fish and chips on the way out, 24 more beers and another taxi home and still have change from a pound.
Member since:2005-07-08
Yeah, it might be so.
But it is the current state of the desktop Linux that has put off many of the now old guys as you say.
We were there in the beginning and tried a lot to advocate Linux and even use it on comercial projects.
But nowadays things still seem to be more or less the same and life and has taken us elsewhere.
I still develop software that targets Linux, but many of my old friends are now developing .Net IT systems. Just worring to get their job done, the time for OS advocacy has passed way.
And I do feel sometimes like so. Even though I develop software for Linux, my private laptop only has XP on it. Because so far I haven't found a distribution that supports it properly.
And on my life I have better things to do than to mess around with configuration files. Somehow I grow old of doing that with every installation that I did install.
And this is the sad state of affairs for many of us that were there on the beginning. Not these youngsters trolls that now pop up in every forum.
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2006-12-16
Hear, hear. I remember Linux circa 97 and Redhat 5.2 and it sucked compared to todays offerings. Linux has come a lot further since 97 than Microsoft Windows has, and equally as well as OS 9/X imho.
For those that lament the old days, go and grab those old disks of Redhat 5.2, Slackware (whatever version it was back then), etc and install them. Have fun (and a lack of productivity to boot I might add).
Gee.
Dave
PS No - I haven't read the article yet, at lunch, don't have time for a long winded gas bag by an old guy reminiscing on old times long since gone.