Linux is not about choice (2008)
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Linux is not about choice (2008)
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Re: Linux is not about choice (2008)
#2Epic: "But the chain of logic from 'Linux is about
choice' to 'ship everything and let the user chose how they want their sound to not work' starts with fallacy and ends with disaster."
Re: Linux is not about choice (2008)
#3Indeed, it's just about using an OS that's great for developing. An OS that has certain advantages over others that appeal to certain users that like those advantages. By hackers, for hackers.
Re: Linux is not about choice (2008)
#4Just a quick note: this is a mailing list post from January 2008. Might be worth tagging the HN headline with it. (EDIT: it's been done)
Re: Linux is not about choice (2008)
#5OS: the huge pile of code that you need to get process abstraction, a file system, networking and possibly some human interface stuff up and running. Code best not seen nor heard because that means you're not doing what you should be doing: using applications or writing them.
OS software is a commodity, and with portability being Linux' mainstay it can now be found on processors of almost any pedigree.
Linux is all about choice: it is about being able to choose the hardware you want and to couple it with the software that you want. But that choice is overwhelming at times and there is definitely a case to be made for a restricted version of all that choice. Ironically this leads to more distros, hence more choice...
Re: Linux is not about choice (2008)
#6Why is this old stuff from 2008 being posted and upvoted?
Re: Linux is not about choice (2008)
#7Just a quick note: this is a mailing list post from January 2008. Might be worth tagging the HN headline with it. (EDIT: it's been done)
Edited, thanks.
Re: Linux is not about choice (2008)
#8Why is this old stuff from 2008 being posted and upvoted?
If just as relevant today as it was then, why shouldn't it be?
Re: Linux is not about choice (2008)
#9Why is this old stuff from 2008 being posted and upvoted?
It's as right now as it was 5 years ago, and has a lot of corrolary with other customer-facing, resource-constrained software maintenance environments that you might see from a YC participant.
And I say this as a Linux user who doesn't use PulseAudio...
Re: Linux is not about choice (2008)
#10Why is this old stuff from 2008 being posted and upvoted?
Because it's still relevant and, I guess, that's why you are being downvoted.