On 09/27/2011 08:58 PM, Kernel Guardian wrote: > After nearly 25 years of life with Unices, almost 20 years with Linux, > nowadays I'm pretty confused about future of Linux. > Allow me to elaborate a bit. > I'm convinced that the Kernel will survive and be better in the long > term future. RedHat and IBM as biggest contributors within it and > Linus as maintainer (leader, mogul ... ) give me faith in the future > of Linux. GNU fits well on the top of kernel. That is a rock solid > base for every Linux distribution. > Last 7 years all of my desktops, laptops, servers are locked down on > RHEL and derivatives and Fedora. I saw many changes, bad and good > ones. But last one, with fairly unfinished, not even close to, so > called Beta release, Gnome 3 DE is the worst what is happened. > On the other hand, I like the new look, many promising features, ...etc. > So, what is bad? > The bad thing is attitude of Gnome (developers, promoters, project > leaders) toward end users. They decide to abandon Gnome 2 and put > distribution maintainers in awkward position. Maintainers must use > (buggy, unfinished, untested) Gnome 3 if they want to use Gnome DE in > their distribution. Breaking compatibility at API level with previous > version put application developers in unenviable position. This is > almost unacceptable! ( because of that I understand Ubuntu leaders ) >>From that point of view I wonder on whose payroll are these gentlemen? > This is not good way to promote OpenSource way of life, I'm presume. > I will agree with opinions that DE need some changes, fresh ideas. > Frankly, I don't see anything new that does not exists in other OS/DE > combination. It is good to have DE for mobile devices, tablets .... > etc. But that could be a related project with main Gnome, isn't it? I > use laptop only when I'm out of office. Desktop with 2 monitors is my > main workplace. ( someone would say "he is old-fashioned guy" ). No > one can convince me that all Gnome developers use only laptops. I > would like to see their workplaces. > I was shocked when I read the response of one of the Gnome developers > in a discussion about maximise/minimise buttons. I paraphrase the > answer: "we where not able to model use cases for them, because each > user uses them in different ways" ????? (I'd rather not comment this) > > At the end, using of Free Software is liberty/freedom of choice. There > are many opportunities: KDE, XFCE, LXDE .... They have been created as > response from people who thought differently. This is a waste of > energy, time, resources, even money. As an old elephant, I could > recall the story about end of XFree86 project. > > This is not the way how we can attract more young people who will > use/make/change OpenSource software. > Regardless of all these current events about Gnome, I will continue to > teach my students about importance of OpenSource, FSF, and freedom of > choice. > > P.S. I like to excuse myself about my English in front of linguistic purists :) Very, very well said. Kudos to you!! Phil -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
