Number of Linux Distributions Surpasses Number of Users !!!!!!

"Somewhere in California - At 8:30 PDT with the release of Snoopy Linux 2.1
and Goober Linux 1.0, the number of Linux distributions finally surpassed
the number of actual Linux users."


"We've been expecting it for some time," Merrill Lynch technology analyst
Tom Shayes said, "but this is a little sooner than most expected. We've
seen explosive growth in the number of Linux distributions, in fact my
nephew just put out LittleLinux Chart Tommy Linux 1.1 last week."


http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.html
--
Moshe Goldfarb
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Moshe Goldfarb <> writes:

> "Somewhere in California - At 8:30 PDT with the release of Snoopy Linux 2.1
> and Goober Linux 1.0, the number of Linux distributions finally surpassed
> the number of actual Linux users."
>
>
> "We've been expecting it for some time," Merrill Lynch technology analyst
> Tom Shayes said, "but this is a little sooner than most expected. We've
> seen explosive growth in the number of Linux distributions, in fact my
> nephew just put out LittleLinux Chart Tommy Linux 1.1 last week."

Kewl! Does it "rock" and "work really well"? Does it meet your "needs"?

> http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.html

LOL. At least some people get it.

On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:19:26 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:

> "Somewhere in California - At 8:30 PDT with the release of Snoopy Linux
> 2.1 and Goober Linux 1.0, the number of Linux distributions finally
> surpassed the number of actual Linux users."
>
>
> "We've been expecting it for some time," Merrill Lynch technology
> analyst Tom Shayes said, "but this is a little sooner than most
> expected. We've seen explosive growth in the number of Linux
> distributions, in fact my nephew just put out LittleLinux Chart Tommy
> Linux 1.1 last week."
>
>
> http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.html

Must be somewhat similar to vista stats - 150 million units sold; 50 in
use.

On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:28:12 +0200, Hadron wrote:

> Moshe Goldfarb <> writes:
>
>> "Somewhere in California - At 8:30 PDT with the release of Snoopy Linux 2.1
>> and Goober Linux 1.0, the number of Linux distributions finally surpassed
>> the number of actual Linux users."
>>
>>
>> "We've been expecting it for some time," Merrill Lynch technology analyst
>> Tom Shayes said, "but this is a little sooner than most expected. We've
>> seen explosive growth in the number of Linux distributions, in fact my
>> nephew just put out LittleLinux Chart Tommy Linux 1.1 last week."
>
> Kewl! Does it "rock" and "work really well"? Does it meet your "needs"?
>
>> http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.html
>
> LOL. At least some people get it.

Hahaha!

Linux and the Linux community is a ball of confusion, a clusterfsck that is
fragmented, filled with hateful, arrogant people and which has no direction
or leadership.

Everyone is free to do their own thing, which is fine if you wish to remain
like the above.
However if Linux ever has a hope of challenging Microsoft for the desktop
it is going to have to reign in the confusion and become organized, even if
it is loosely organized at first.

They can start with why the need for so many different package managers.

Then they can move to why they need 15 different sound systems.

Why so many different native file systems.

Why different startup and shutdown scripts doing different things at the
various levels in the boot/shutdown process.

Why so many different, and duplicate tools to mange the distribution.

An example is Samba.

There has to be a dozen or more tools to set up Samba and for anyone who
has attempted to set up Samba they know how confusing it is.
The net is clogged with How-To's on this topic and it is surely one of the
most frequently asked questions in Linux help groups.


They should take the best of the best, meld it into ONE TOTALLY WORKING
distribution and then put all the other stuff in a repository free to
download if anyone wants to.
This way they can take all of these people who are working on their own
distributions and pool their resources and talent to create a Linux that
actually works instead of the slopware (mostly) that is what desktop Linux
currently is.

But the Linux community won't allow this because they cry "we want
choice!!"

Evidently they want inferior slopware programs as well.

--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/

On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 09:40:21 -0500, Liarnut wrote:

> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>
>> http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.html
>
>
> "Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer said, "Microsoft will have to play catch up
> with the number of versions that Linux has, but we think we can do it. With
> the break up of Microsoft imminent that will instantly double the number of
> Windows versions available." "
>
> LOL

Why the obsession with Windows and Microsoft?
What are you guys afraid of?


--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/

Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>
> Why the obsession with Windows and Microsoft?
> What are you guys afraid of?


http://distrowatch.com/
Development Release: PUD GNU/Linux 0.4.8.6 LXDE Edition
"Pin-Shiun Chen just announced a special version of PUD GNU/Linux, an
Ubuntu-based mini distribution based on the newest LXDE 0.3: "This edition
of live CD....."


LMAO Lxers will be pounding their PUDs now.

On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 09:58:41 -0500, Liarnut wrote:

> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>
>> Why the obsession with Windows and Microsoft?
>> What are you guys afraid of?
>
>
> http://distrowatch.com/
> Development Release: PUD GNU/Linux 0.4.8.6 LXDE Edition
> "Pin-Shiun Chen just announced a special version of PUD GNU/Linux, an
> Ubuntu-based mini distribution based on the newest LXDE 0.3: "This edition
> of live CD....."
>
>
> LMAO Lxers will be pounding their PUDs now.

Yep.

Yet another Linux distribution is born.
More confusion.
More slopware.
Same, even after 10 years, 0.6 percent desktop market share.


--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/

On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:44:39 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 09:40:21 -0500, Liarnut wrote:
>
>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.html
>>
>>
>> "Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer said, "Microsoft will have to play catch
>> up with the number of versions that Linux has, but we think we can do
>> it. With the break up of Microsoft imminent that will instantly double
>> the number of Windows versions available." "
>>
>> LOL
>
> Why the obsession with Windows and Microsoft? What are you guys afraid
> of?

.... more illegal market manipulation?



--
Rick

Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:28:12 +0200, Hadron wrote:
>
>> Moshe Goldfarb <> writes:
>>
>>> "Somewhere in California - At 8:30 PDT with the release of Snoopy Linux 2.1
>>> and Goober Linux 1.0, the number of Linux distributions finally surpassed
>>> the number of actual Linux users."
>>>
>>>
>>> "We've been expecting it for some time," Merrill Lynch technology analyst
>>> Tom Shayes said, "but this is a little sooner than most expected. We've
>>> seen explosive growth in the number of Linux distributions, in fact my
>>> nephew just put out LittleLinux Chart Tommy Linux 1.1 last week."
>> Kewl! Does it "rock" and "work really well"? Does it meet your "needs"?
>>
>>> http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.html
>> LOL. At least some people get it.
>
> Hahaha!
>
> Linux and the Linux community is a ball of confusion, a clusterfsck that is
> fragmented, filled with hateful, arrogant people and which has no direction
> or leadership.
>
> Everyone is free to do their own thing, which is fine if you wish to remain
> like the above.
> However if Linux ever has a hope of challenging Microsoft for the desktop
> it is going to have to reign in the confusion and become organized, even if
> it is loosely organized at first.
>
> They can start with why the need for so many different package managers.
>
> Then they can move to why they need 15 different sound systems.
>
> Why so many different native file systems.
>
> Why different startup and shutdown scripts doing different things at the
> various levels in the boot/shutdown process.
>
> Why so many different, and duplicate tools to mange the distribution.
>
> An example is Samba.
>
> There has to be a dozen or more tools to set up Samba and for anyone who
> has attempted to set up Samba they know how confusing it is.
> The net is clogged with How-To's on this topic and it is surely one of the
> most frequently asked questions in Linux help groups.
>
>
> They should take the best of the best, meld it into ONE TOTALLY WORKING
> distribution and then put all the other stuff in a repository free to
> download if anyone wants to.
> This way they can take all of these people who are working on their own
> distributions and pool their resources and talent to create a Linux that
> actually works instead of the slopware (mostly) that is what desktop Linux
> currently is.
>
> But the Linux community won't allow this because they cry "we want
> choice!!"
>
> Evidently they want inferior slopware programs as well.
>


Maybe the software has a little ways to go but it is improving rapidly.
with more Linux distros than users just shows how much smarter Linux
users are than windows users.
From the looks of it many more Linux users can create their own OS.
Almost non of the Windows users can.
caver1

Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 09:58:41 -0500, Liarnut wrote:
>
>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>> Why the obsession with Windows and Microsoft?
>>> What are you guys afraid of?
>>
>> http://distrowatch.com/
>> Development Release: PUD GNU/Linux 0.4.8.6 LXDE Edition
>> "Pin-Shiun Chen just announced a special version of PUD GNU/Linux, an
>> Ubuntu-based mini distribution based on the newest LXDE 0.3: "This edition
>> of live CD....."
>>
>>
>> LMAO Lxers will be pounding their PUDs now.
>
> Yep.
>
> Yet another Linux distribution is born.
> More confusion.
> More slopware.
> Same, even after 10 years, 0.6 percent desktop market share.
>
>


At least someone thought of giving them pleasure. MS sure don't.
caver1