[members at lugog] Introduction

[Ian Dickinson]

Hi John,

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:15 PM, john lewis <johnlewis at hantslug.org.uk> wrote:
> That may be the case, but surely it doesn't mean that individuals have
> to go along with that concept if they choose not to.
It's not clear to me that anyone said that you do. Nobody's forcing
you or anyone else to do anything. Indeed, if anything I'd say the
converse was true: if Linux distros didn't adapt to what people at
large *want* to do (games, social media, high-definition video, etc)
then those distros would be *denying* choice to the people who do want
to do those things on GNU/Linux, but don't find the current user
experience satisfactory. If Linux is ever to break out of its current
niche, it has to go where the market is.

> I want to keep to the old unix concept of separate apps to do
> different things but extended so I have discrete systems for different
> tasks.
Is there anything preventing you from doing this?

> Basically this cloud stuff is just vapour so far as I am concerned.
Not sure how we segued into cloud computing, but it definitely isn't
vapourware - we rely on it daily at work. Was there a particular
aspect of the cloud you find unconvincing?

Ian