[aklug] Re: multiple distros coordinate to establish /run directory

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 03:15:37PM -0800, Arthur Corliss wrote:
>
> :-) True, we're still better off, but for how long? And can you claim with
> 100% confidence that Linux in general is better off than it was 5/10 years
> ago?
>
> The premise of my diatribe is simple: as the desktop folks chase eye candy,
> gee-whiz feature creep, and endless integration, they're forsaking the
> fundamental design principles that made UNIX a robust and compelling
> platform in the first place. I don't see things getting better, they're
> getting worse. My $0.02.
>
> --Arthur Corliss
> Live Free or Die

Bingo!

You hit the nail on the head. Now we even have Ubuntu POS, which doesn't
do Windows well, though it tries, and gives Linux a bad name.

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
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