Excuse me! I didn't mean to trip the mine of Stallman's dogma. I was merely
pointing out (in favor of TDE, which saved my project from 10 years of work
down the drain) that when a midstream OS team arbritrarily forks a fully
functioning system for some new cosmetic reason (e.g. "plasma") without
offering an alternative, it disrupts a whole host of further downstream
work that these OS folks seem not to have a clue about. I happen to head
one of those kinds of projects, which is about 10 floors above the desktop
mezzanine and the kernel basement. Just finding a stable architecture upon
which to build my penthouse has been almost impossible. KDE4 was like 9/11
to me. We have over 200 balkanized strains of Linux superstructure now. I'm
simply seeking a way out of the chaos. M$ is like another planet. It
doesn't bear mentioning. I would just like to see TDE-Ubuntu, TDE-Debian,
TDE-CentOS, TDE-Suse, and maybe a couple of others carry on the KDE3
tradition. 200 strains is anarchy, Diversity can be a killer of forward
progress.
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:28 AM, TN Patriot <irgunii(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:41:29 -0700
Joseph Thames <beartham(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This is an interesting point of why Linux is
going to hell in a
handbasket.
I had used KDE for about 10 years when it forked
into KDE4, which was
like
going through a hurricane. Most of my favorite
tools were either gone, or
did not work any more. Imagine what it would be like if we had as many
kernels (and kernel-builders competing with one another) as we have
desktops. Doesn't anybody understand entropy?
What are you talking about? Kim works fine in any distro of Linux. TDE
isn't a
'distro' per se and as someone else pointed out it could still work
relatively
easily in TDE.
Linux is about choice and the freedom of it. I *like* that there are so
many
distro's to choose from. Without that kind of choice, it'd be like
grocery
shopping for bread and all you get to choose from is white or wheat. If
Linus
didn't want people to use it and make it into what *they* wanted, he'd
have
slapped a EULA on it like that garbage OS M$ and been done with it.
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