A FEW years ago, the open-source operating system Linux was well known to techies, and barely known to the person on the street. That was for good reason - while it had enormous popularity for its reliability and flexibility running servers at the back end of organisations, it wasn't the easiest system to install or use for typical computer users. Most of us are more accustomed to Windows or Macs, where most of the stuff we need comes rolled up seamlessly in the operating system installation, or is easily bought and added on.
Right now, there is a very huge scarcity in developers who know how to do this kind of work. Lots and lots of companies are trying madly to train their internal engineers on how to work with the community, in this kind of very different development model. They are looking for and need people that already know how to do this kind of thing. So don't sell yourself short at all. Your skills are wanted and needed, so either tell your current employer that you need to have the time to do this kind of upstream work, or change to a company that knows this already."
Yes, KDE-4.2 will be 32 times faster deleting a large number of files compared to KDE-4.1!
Comments
AlexH
2008-09-19 14:36:06
So we'll allow some praise of Red Hat "by Novell", because truly they deserve it, before we get back to business as usual, the taketh away :)
Roy Schestowitz
2008-09-19 14:48:21