[Coco] Fedora 6 DVD ISO & Linux in General

[Rob Rosenbrock]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
> On Behalf Of John W. Linville
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 9:06 AM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Fedora 6 DVD ISO & Linux in General
> 
> On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:13:42AM -0400, Rob Rosenbrock wrote:
> > Congratulations! That was very rude!
> 
> It is rude to spout ignorant opinions essentially accusing those of
> us who choose linux of being some sort of geek-children.
> 
> > Uninformed? No. Even the most fanatical Linux websites would be
> > forced to admit that Linux isn't for everyone. There are many programs
> > that are offered Strictly as source code due to the many variations
> > of Linux and the libraries needed.
> 
> Your tone is insulting, implying that linux users are all fanatics.
> Have you considered that for many of us linux "just works" and Windows
> "just doesn't"?
> 
> Please cite an example of these programs "offered strictly as source".
> Try to make it one that actually has broad appeal.  No doubt there
> are apps available only as source, but only because they are either
> too new to have proved themselves useful or of too limited appeal to
> be worth packaging by the distros.
> 
> John
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Per the conditions you've set, any program named would be termed as 'non
worthy.' I have no idea what program Rich might have been referring to, but
the case that comes to my mind is Doomsday, a Linux port of Doom. Since
libraries are not redistributed, compilation becomes a long chase after
drivers/libraries and calls to the forums for help. Certainly not something
a novice would be able to tackle without some severe frustration. It may not
appeal to you, but it is something that a novice might want to do.

I was not insulting -- You misread my statement. I have worked with Linux
since before it had a gui, and I am most certainly NOT a fanatic. And if
there's an OS I haven't worked with, then I don't know its name. I guess I'm
just one of the few that actually got Windows to work...