Posted by: Joseph Cooper
on November 10, 2005 05:48 AM
The "points that were raised" are irrelevant!
Do you even realize why we have multiple distributions? It's so that they can target things. Why do you expect every distribution company to do every damn thing?
No, Redhat is not pushing Linux on the desktop. That's not Redhat's BUSINESS to target the desktop.
There are also other distributions that do what you want; pursue the desktop.
There isn't just one distribution, because not all distributions are there to cater to everyone under the Sun. You can't make a monolithic server-desktop-thinclient-HPC cluster member-embedded operating system. It doesn't make any sense to even try. They have directly contradictory factors.
A server operating system does not want an enourmous fully featured desktop with every plugin imaginable on the taskbar. A desktop does not want high latency and a swappiness of 90. An embedded does not want 4 gigabytes of redundant programs. A rackmounted cluster unit does not want a huge kernel with support for a dozen sound cards.
That is why you have Redhat doing their thing, while other companies target the desktop, while others target the embedded, and so on.
Can you not handle the idea that not every distribution company is doing what you think is prudent? The very thought is very inheritly AGAINST everything that we're doing stands for!
This is not how it works. You don't make distributions conform to your taste. You're supposed to pick a distribution according to your taste. Cause, believe it or not, other people have differing taste, and we like to have something called "choice", not "every distribution should do the same damn thing".
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Posted by: Joseph Cooper on November 10, 2005 05:48 AMDo you even realize why we have multiple distributions? It's so that they can target things. Why do you expect every distribution company to do every damn thing?
No, Redhat is not pushing Linux on the desktop. That's not Redhat's BUSINESS to target the desktop.
There are also other distributions that do what you want; pursue the desktop.
There isn't just one distribution, because not all distributions are there to cater to everyone under the Sun. You can't make a monolithic server-desktop-thinclient-HPC cluster member-embedded operating system. It doesn't make any sense to even try. They have directly contradictory factors.
A server operating system does not want an enourmous fully featured desktop with every plugin imaginable on the taskbar. A desktop does not want high latency and a swappiness of 90. An embedded does not want 4 gigabytes of redundant programs. A rackmounted cluster unit does not want a huge kernel with support for a dozen sound cards.
That is why you have Redhat doing their thing, while other companies target the desktop, while others target the embedded, and so on.
Can you not handle the idea that not every distribution company is doing what you think is prudent? The very thought is very inheritly AGAINST everything that we're doing stands for!
This is not how it works. You don't make distributions conform to your taste. You're supposed to pick a distribution according to your taste. Cause, believe it or not, other people have differing taste, and we like to have something called "choice", not "every distribution should do the same damn thing".
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