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Linux system manufacturer System76 introduced a beautiful looking Linux distribution called Pop!_OS. But is Pop OS worth an install? Read the Pop OS review and find out yourself.
More at : https://itsfoss.com/pop-os-linux-review/
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Croll's Query:
If tin whistles are made of tin, what are foghorns made of?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by frojack on Tuesday January 16 2018, @01:05AM (4 children)
Quote Article:
Anybody who writes about fragmentation with regard to Linux needs to be taken behind the barn and put down immediately.
Look, people, its just Gnome with lipstick.
The fact that Pop!_OS makes you read their entire intro page before mentioning Linux speaks to a certain dishonesty. Perhaps a little better than Solus [solus-project.com], who never mention it on their home page, but still dishonest.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Tuesday January 16 2018, @02:21AM (1 child)
Agree, there is something a bit too Barnum T. Bailey and Burning Man gee whizz about both the article and Pop!_OS's own site for my taste.
The killer was this quote: “Apple of the Linux world.” Pradoed again we are.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday January 16 2018, @07:33PM
That would be GNUStep.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @07:06PM
Fragmentation is basically the spiel used to turn every distro into a Fedora clone, with Systemd and Gnome as the "headline attractions".
Fragmentation has not been and never will be the problem. The problem has always been with mayfly programmers that think they can rewrite decade-plus battle hardened code with something they whipped up over the weekend while learning some new language or other. This while giving the middle finger to any notion of API stability.
The reason Linux the kernel so used everywhere is that Torvalds comes down like an angry Finn on anyone that screwed up the userspace facing APIs.
The only reason the likes of Debian and RHEL has maintained some success is because they basically freeze the version of the software offered, much to the chagrin to previously mentioned mayfly programmers (to the point that they have now latched on to containerization as way to have their cake and eat it to, by replicating the kind of software installs that was done back in the DOS days) that always wants to see people use their latest and "greatest" creations.
Damn it, one big reason that Windows is still around is that you are likely to be able to run software initially written back in the Win95 era. This because Microsoft has been adamant about maintaining API stability across Windows releases. You may even be able to run Win16 based software on Windows 10, if you install the 32-bit form of the OS (and the problem there is hardware rather than software related).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @10:01AM
Are we looking at the same page? The distro is targetted specifically at developers and lists as its primary selling point the fact that it is Linux and due to the ubiquity of Linux in the server environment the same platform developers typically deploy to