Re:Bye Eric! Call us when U change toilet papers!!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 22, 2007 03:50 AM
Funny you mention your move; I did the same going from Kubuntu to Fedora on my desktop dualboot and SUSE to Mandrivia on my laptop dualboot. My wife who uses both win/linux portions of our desktop was at first worried but after I set everything up the way I liked it, she asked "isnt this the exact same thing? There is my Firefox, rss reader, email, OO just like before." Switching distros is a daunting as someone at work who has to go from XP to the win2K box to the Vista interface.
As for Raymond, I have to take any such comments with a grain of salt when we know he swings the Linspire way now. When Pepsi buys you, they sort of prefer if that you dont drink Coke. When you are on the leadership board of one distro why should people care that you arent using another one? Wouldnt you find it weird that someone well placed in (name your favorite distro) hierarchy doesnt actually use it his main distro?
But it doesnt matter, ESR's name might still have a cachet to some because of past fame but I dont see what he has offer.
Next week Eric Raymond switches to two ply toilet paper!! Stay tuned!!
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Re:Bye Eric! Call us when U change toilet papers!!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 22, 2007 03:50 AMMy wife who uses both win/linux portions of our desktop was at first worried but after I set everything up the way I liked it, she asked "isnt this the exact same thing? There is my Firefox, rss reader, email, OO just like before."
Switching distros is a daunting as someone at work who has to go from XP to the win2K box to the Vista interface.
As for Raymond, I have to take any such comments with a grain of salt when we know he swings the Linspire way now. When Pepsi buys you, they sort of prefer if that you dont drink Coke.
When you are on the leadership board of one distro why should people care that you arent using another one?
Wouldnt you find it weird that someone well placed in (name your favorite distro) hierarchy doesnt actually use it his main distro?
But it doesnt matter, ESR's name might still have a cachet to some because of past fame but I dont see what he has offer.
Next week Eric Raymond switches to two ply toilet paper!! Stay tuned!!
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