Re: tlug: directions...

[Viktor Pavlenko <vp@example.com>]

>>>>> "TOD" == Thomas O'Dowd <tom@example.com> writes:

    TOD> Where is linux
    TOD> going and where do you want it to go (today/tomorrow/the day
    TOD> after)?

Sure it's gonna become a Mac (not MS which was a side effect of the
evolution) -like system (with one big difference, it will be much more
flexible and functional), everybody feels it but is afraid to admit,
and that's why it's very disappointing for many today's Linux
addicts. But that's the way it is: computers and OSes exist for doing
job, not just for their own existence. Job like writing formatted
documents in a high level text editor or software applications (we
won't give up emacs though :-). A good OS is like the air -- it must
be fresh and transparent so that we can forget about our breathing and
do something useful.

    TOD> I'm new to the list so I don't know any of you yet but it
    TOD> will be great to hook up and talk about what we all use linux
    TOD> for and what we wanna use it for going forward. It might be
    TOD> interesting to put such contents on the tlug site. I'd also
    TOD> love to know if there are those of you who dabble in source
    TOD> and contribute to the various opensource projects. This would
    TOD> be a cool thing to put on the site too, a kinda who is
    TOD> doing/did what.

I like this list the way it is because I don't have to subscribe to
other lists, it's admin and flame and whatever, and people seem to
know where to stop if it goes too far. Though maybe a tlug-develop
list (and nomikais, Simon, Saturday 9PM is the same as Monday 6AM for
me!) would be a good idea...

Viktor
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