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Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 13:06:53 +0100 Organization: A little, after lunch Lines: 29 Message-ID: <vegd4t$lobb$7@dont-email.me> References: <pan$bad8$b677bed3$aca0e5e2$5bb3eab5@linux.rocks> <lmjll1Fd52kU2@mid.individual.net> <slrnvgb2cp.5v0f.candycanearter07@candydeb.host.invalid> <ve4go1$3ra8a$3@dont-email.me> <pan$4209e$40d36e28$c8a7c079$163ec1ab@linux.rocks> <ve5v74$2ld1n$1@dont-email.me> <ve85ik$muck$1@news1.tnib.de> <6708495f@news.ausics.net> <a66a3914-6c11-0ffb-f390-bb54cb5134e6@example.net> <vee8uq$7vmp$2@dont-email.me> <a954b84c-ed72-4a87-fd0a-a59023bb7fc9@example.net> <vef5s8$cdhq$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:06:54 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a26b8e86e055ce1849ca17ac39217bee"; logging-data="713067"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+WW8xFwGB2if+88UTWSm6SM55ua800Urg=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:D5U8J4Vgm/0/JTPM7mVawfsstQg= In-Reply-To: <vef5s8$cdhq$2@dont-email.me> Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 2861 On 13/10/2024 01:56, Phillip Frabott wrote: > I think the innovation is slowing down because GNU/Linux has finally > caught up to where other operating systems are today. The same could be > said about Windows or MacOS. They really aren't innovating with any > speed either. My biggest thing is that I hope with us at a point now > where we have technological parity with the other OSes, we can start to > see projects finish the 'last mile' of development. Most of the > FOSS/OSS/Freedom Software out there is 80% and they just stop developing > as "good enough". Which it is, but that extra 20% polish would really > create a top notch system that can truly rival and even overthrow the > other operating systems. We should try to shift our focus on building > the software to 100% but finishing that polish needed for most packages > out there. Yep. For all traditional applications Linux is now Good Enough and I am FAR more interested on having applications that run on it, in my personal linux space. I've got a linux that is yonks old still running a public webserver. My car is 17 years old too., It runs OK -- There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain