Why desktop Linux Sucks

[Satyajit Ranjeev]

Hi all,

     I came across this video by cris and bryan:
http://lunduke.com/?p=429
They did have a few valid points..
You can pick up the slides here:
http://lunduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/linux-sucks.odp
A few areas they spoke were bringing a unified standard for packaging, 
single multimedia system and a few more.


Satyajit

[William Morris]

Satyajit wrote:
>  Hi all,
>
>      I came across this video by cris and bryan:
>  http://lunduke.com/?p=429
>  They did have a few valid points..
>  You can pick up the slides here:
>  http://lunduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/linux-sucks.odp
>  A few areas they spoke were bringing a unified standard for packaging, 
>  single multimedia system and a few more.
>
>
>  Satyajit
>
>
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This is very interesting. Thanks for the find.

[Jason Benedict Low]

Satyajit wrote:
>  Hi all,
>
>      I came across this video by cris and bryan:
>  http://lunduke.com/?p=429
>  They did have a few valid points..
>  You can pick up the slides here:
>  http://lunduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/linux-sucks.odp
>  A few areas they spoke were bringing a unified standard for packaging, 
>  single multimedia system and a few more. 
This is Nice. Yes, Unified standard in all
Linux distro and conbine effort will be nice.

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[inode0]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Jason Benedict Low
<jbenedictlow(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Satyajit wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >    I came across this video by cris and bryan:
> > http://lunduke.com/?p=429
> > They did have a few valid points..
> > You can pick up the slides here:
> > http://lunduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/linux-sucks.odp
> > A few areas they spoke were bringing a unified standard for packaging,
> > single multimedia system and a few more.
>
>  This is Nice. Yes, Unified standard in all Linux distro and conbine effort
>  will be nice. 
While I admit I won't watch these guys based on my personal history
with them, I am not an advocate of mass standardization. One of the
reasons the open source world thrives and innovates is the lack of
constraints. You have a good idea, run with it and prove it. If you
do, people will start using it and we all benefit from the innovation.
The competition of ideas and the ability to create your own small
experiment and watch it grow is a good environment for us to work in.
It does create some mayhem, but I believe the advantages far outweigh
the disadvantages.

John

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:18:38AM -0500, inode0 wrote:
>  On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Jason Benedict Low
>  <jbenedictlow(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  > Satyajit wrote:
>  >>
>  >> Hi all,
>  >>
>  >>    I came across this video by cris and bryan:
>  >> http://lunduke.com/?p=429
>  >> They did have a few valid points..
>  >> You can pick up the slides here:
>  >> http://lunduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/linux-sucks.odp
>  >> A few areas they spoke were bringing a unified standard for packaging,
>  >> single multimedia system and a few more.
>  >
>  > This is Nice. Yes, Unified standard in all Linux distro and conbine effort
>  > will be nice.
>  
>  While I admit I won't watch these guys based on my personal history
>  with them, I am not an advocate of mass standardization. One of the
>  reasons the open source world thrives and innovates is the lack of
>  constraints. You have a good idea, run with it and prove it. If you
>  do, people will start using it and we all benefit from the innovation.
>  The competition of ideas and the ability to create your own small
>  experiment and watch it grow is a good environment for us to work in.
>  It does create some mayhem, but I believe the advantages far outweigh
>  the disadvantages. 
Interesting refutation from Adam Williamson:
http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/05/15/packaging-standards-again/

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