The Linux Identity Crisis 364
Jayze Calrtini writes "From an article from ZDNet:"If you've been following the current rift in the Linux community between Linus Torvalds and his minions squaring off against Con Kolivas and the mainstream Linux fanatics, you probably know that it's getting quite heated.
You also probably know that these two entirely different ideas could create three possible paths Linux can take for the future: stay geeky and appeal to the advanced tech guru in all of us; go mainstream and leave the advanced functionality and reliable kernel behind to compete with Microsoft and Apple; or face a "civil war" that could lead to total Linux annihilation."
My Vote (Score:5, Funny)
I mean, with Vista, who cares about Linux anymore?
another option (Score:5, Funny)
Don't like the direction the kernel is going? Branch the kernel and call it MyBSD. Whatever, no one is going
to get pissed.
Linux folks take themselves WAY too seriously, and besides, *BSD has a 'cool' factor with the chicks that
Linux will never have. You should see the honeys flock to me when I sport my FreeBSD tshirt.
Come on in to BSD, boys, the water is fine.
Re:another option (Score:4, Funny)
Re:another option (Score:5, Funny)
Three outcomes? (Score:3, Funny)
Really good make-up sex between the parties.
Re:Don't bother reading it (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot needs a "Chop up and feed to the pigs out back" button.
Re:My Vote (Score:3, Funny)
No thanks, I'll pass on that pile of doo doo.
Re:My Vote (Score:5, Funny)
Re:another option (Score:5, Funny)
The thing I like about Linux is the GPL, but I guess I can just add the GPL to MyBSD.
Re:Three outcomes? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:another option (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Don't bother reading it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:another option (Score:1, Funny)
They see the BSD demon on a t-shirt, they think...
"Oh, the devil, he's a REBEL and he'll never be any good. I think I want to have uninhibited, no-strings-attached sex with him."
When they see the fat little puffin (or is that a penguin, I can never tell) -
"Hmm, a portly penguin. That's kind of effeminate, he must be a homosexual."
Re:Desktop Linux is not just 3D games (Score:3, Funny)
But I also wonder what percentage of the people being so vocal about the CK affair are just ricers who build everything with CFLAGs set to "-O9 -fomit-instructions" just in case it give them an extra
Re:Three outcomes? (Score:3, Funny)