[KLUG Advocacy] Lindows/"I Hate Linux" rant....

[Adam Williams]

> > I read that little rant (as well as a few other articles on this
> > guy's site).  Basically, the rant is saying "I hate Linux because I am
> > too lazy to figure it out.  Change is hard."  (paraphrase)
> I think that the one big thing that he is pretty much right on about
> is installing software.  RPM works (for the most part) but does not
> have an intuitive interface from either the command-line or the GUI. 
> Yeah it has a lot of functionality but it is still difficult
> compaired to other platforms.  Red Carpet is really cool but not
> everything is in it.  

It does support installing, querying, etc... RPMS from any GNOME VFS
supported URL (hence, that includes the local filesystem).  It can even
chase dependencies.

I didn't even know this till a couple of weeks ago when I saw one of my
new Linux users do it,  apparently it is just way *TOO* intuitive for a
crusty old windbag like myself. :)


> I am moving more toward the opinion of Mac on the desktop Linux on
> the servers as the best choice in a perfect world. (and by the way I

Check out the new netatalk (sp?) VFS module in Samba 3.x.x.  Very nice.

> do not think that everything should be free unlike the jackbooted R.
> Stallman)

I'm not certain Stallman thinks exactly that.  I think the state of
free-ness should be entirely in the hands of the author (assuming she
hasn't encumbered herself with other licenses; such as linking to
openH323, etc...)