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| schestowitz | > Hi, Swapnil, | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > Thanks for the great articles and high level of activity at Muktware. | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > One recent article[1] closed with a recommendation of Linux distros: | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > "Linux has become extremely easy and you should try any | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > user-friendly Linux-based operating system such as | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > Linux Mint or openSUSE." | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > OpenSuse is not a good distro to recommend because of its ties to | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > Microsoft. Novell, as you know, signed an unsavory deal with Microsoft | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > [2] and has further connections via Microsoft's partner Attachmate.[3] | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > Suse/OpenSuse had a good reputation in the old days back when it was | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > German, but now it is simply a vector for poor-quality, Microsoft | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > technology to be injected into GNU/Linux upon the unsuspecting. All | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > that happened years ago and nothing has changed to improve the situation. | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > Recently, luminaries like RMS and Bruce Perens have made the point to | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > avoid other distros. [4] I'm not sure what that leaves. Fedora? | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > Mint, the Ubuntu-derivative which you mentioned was a good choice. I'm | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > sure this will change and change again as the distros and their sponsors | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > learn and adapt. But for years, OpenSuse has been rather toxic and as | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > long as the Novell-Attachmate-Microsoft deals are in force, it will | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > remain toxic. | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > Anyway, thanks again for the articles and I hope you can find a good, | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > safer alternative to OpenSuse. | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > [1]http://www.muktware.com/4968/internet-explorer-spies-users-through-mouse | Dec 13 14:03 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: Internet Explorer Spies On Users Through Mouse | Muktware .::. Size~: 67.91 KB | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > [2] | Dec 13 14:03 |
| schestowitz | > http://news.cnet.com/microsoft-makes-linux-pact-with-novell/2100-1016_3-6132119.html | Dec 13 14:03 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: Microsoft makes Linux pact with Novell - CNET News .::. Size~: 71.35 KB | Dec 13 14:04 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 13 14:04 |
| schestowitz | > [3] | Dec 13 14:04 |
| schestowitz | > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/whats-microsofts-role-in-the-novell-attachmate-deal/8041 | Dec 13 14:04 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: What's Microsoft's role in the Novell-Attachmate deal? | ZDNet .::. Size~: 77.84 KB | Dec 13 14:04 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 13 14:04 |
| schestowitz | > [4]http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3301707&cid=42216447 | Dec 13 14:04 |
| schestowitz | Swapnil approached me some months ago because he had guilty consciousness over OpenSUSE promotion. I hope hearing it from more people will change his mind. | Dec 13 14:04 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: RMS Speaks Out Against Ubuntu - Slashdot .::. Size~: 79.69 KB | Dec 13 14:04 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2191698 | Dec 13 14:04 |
| TechrightsBot | @linux@joindiaspora.com: Who Needs Ubuntu? Steam for #Linux Running Under #Gentoo http://techgage.com/news/who-needs-ubuntu-steam-for-linux-running-under-gentoo/ moving #steam to freedom-respecting distros | Dec 13 14:04 |
| TechrightsBot | -> Title: Who Needs Ubuntu? Steam for Linux Running Under Gentoo – Techgage .::. Size~: 18.31 KB | Dec 13 14:04 |
| schestowitz | "Yep, sounds quite promising! according to this we could soon have more-or-less-dirty handmade packages for a lot of distro" | Dec 13 14:04 |
| schestowitz | And I doubt Valve will mind, as long as they only need to support Ubuntu users and maintain a package for this one flavour of Debian. | Dec 13 14:05 |
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| schestowitz | > I think he's done for the day, but we had time to exchange a few | Dec 13 18:39 |
| schestowitz | > messages. I think the crux might be that he sees the Novell-M$ deal | Dec 13 18:39 |
| schestowitz | > as the past and for me it is the current state of things. He also has | Dec 13 18:39 |
| schestowitz | > some well-founded reservations with Canonical. However, even if I | Dec 13 18:39 |
| schestowitz | > share them, the Novell problems are patent based and thus more pressing. | Dec 13 18:39 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 13 18:39 |
| schestowitz | > Of note, there has not yet been a public response to RMS / FSF | Dec 13 18:39 |
| schestowitz | > concerns about Canonical's recent shenanigans. Also, the mischief | Dec 13 18:39 |
| schestowitz | > with grub not too long ago make me wonder if they are still fully | Dec 13 18:39 |
| schestowitz | > onboard with software freedom thing. | Dec 13 18:39 |
| schestowitz | They had backtracked on that, as I covered. I think there's an inner struggle there; recall those whom Canonical hired from Microsoft, leading to Yahoo! search bar suggestions, .NET aops, removing GIMP, etc. | Dec 13 18:39 |
| schestowitz | Bacon withdrew some claims against RMS that blew up and made a PR disaster even worse. Ubuntu 13.04 will make Amazon sellout even worse, turning Ubuntu into a shopping cart OS. | Dec 13 18:39 |
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