Censorship
Posted Apr 19, 2003 19:28 UTC (Sat) by
mslicker (guest, #10752)
In reply to:
Better than I expected by BrucePerens
Parent article:
An apology from Novell's CEO
We Have No Right To Censor His Opinions!
Free Software and Open Source philosophies have always meant the most to
me because of Freedom and Openness. Disallowing Novell's CEO to speak
his mind is absolutely wrong. This kind of social pressure stands
against the principles of freedom--you all have your opinions and he can
have his.
Yes--responsibility comes with freedom, but this was really uncalled for.
If he feels like Linux is immature--well, that's purely an opinion. It's
not misinformation. Frankly, I think users and programmers should always
see Linux in that way--so it gets better.
Hell, I run a GNU/Linux-based Cyber Cafe and I'll tell you, Red Hat has
totally ruined KDE and their XFree crashes weekly. The only desktop
distrobution we'd tried that stands the test of time is Lycoris, but it's
stripped down so much it takes a lot of work to get it to serve LTSP
terminals.
BTW: Red Hat is the worst performing as a Desktop server (Mandrake is
second). SuSE is pretty good in terms of overall (properly working)
software selection and stands up very well in terms of stability over
time. Lycoris is the very best in terms of performance, security, and
stability over time. Gentoo is easy to optimize but would be very hard
to get to the level of Lycoris in performance or refinement. That's
because we have to do so much work, revising and optimizing packages and
such. Overall, I prefer Gentoo. This is for the simple reason that they
did not *enhance* the various packages like KDE. Everything seems to
come as the developers intended them. KDE works exceptionally well.
GNOME stuff seems to work well also... But I find it odd calling anything
GNOME as the unions seems 90% political and perhaps only 10% technical.
GNOME applications are mostly independent applicaitons under a common
political banner.
Matthew C. Tedder
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