Quotes of the week

Never let root try to do a job the operating system should do itself. Furthermore, never let a user try to do it, either. Unless you prefer a system you never let people onto. And if that is your use case, you are better off choosing something which has infinite flexibility, and then disconnecting it from the net.

Managing a volunteer open source project is a lot like herding kittens, except the kittens randomly appear and disappear because they have day jobs.

I'm worried that an ecosystem one-tenth the size of the current desktop market will be uninteresting to Microsoft and Apple. They will continue to make the desktop computing experience more mobile-like in an effort to please the larger market. This is where I think the desktop Linux vendors can really shine. Since they aren't as dependent on direct profit, they can thrive in a smaller market (which is still less than 10% today). However, this means they should focus on the needs of advanced users, not on trying to make a desktop that everyone in the world can use.