No, trust wasn’t meant as in the context you provided. As for the init system discussion the previous 6 months or so, i’m not informed enough, as that’s not my expertise (i’m not in IT or anything technical related to it). So in that case, i have no other choice than to trust the developers, as they have done more than enough for my needs.
As for trust, i was meaning more in the lines of trust the project governance, as i fell openSUSE fits the way i see things should be done and organized. My only hope is, that SUSE is doing ok also.
Hello Mr.Holden87!
Ok. My opinions, -forget about the init system discussions specially. It all comes down to a bunch of developers (no company named) that behave the same. Have done so in a couple of cases for a long time.
My sources? I have read mailingslist/blogs etc and I think I have a pretty clear picture.
I dont regret my answer to you “You have a lot of opinions that I agree upon. Some I don’t.”.
Hm… 1066. Hastings. Norman. Lets back some years. The vikings was sailing on the Seine and Thames rivers and was deduct a lot of silver from France/UK. Not only once. The Norman received the north of France as part of ransom and called it Normadie. Well documented. Even French has a lot of “forn-nordic” words in it. The Normans there was mainly Danish/Norwegian. The Swedish Normans was busy to create “Rus” in Kiev/Ukranie in the east. Not to well documented but highly interesting with today’s situation in Ukraine/Russia.
Of course, i didn’t expect otherwise. You are entitled to your own opinion, no harm in that. Especially since you know your way around these topics better. So let’s drink to that!
Green greetings to Sweden!
Yes we built a wast trading empire in the east, it stretched as far as Konstantinopel, Samarkand, Tasjkent and Bagdad, possibly eaven further. And it was in this era the idea of IKEA was born, we couldn’t carry the sofas, the tables the book shelfes in those narrow long boats in one piece, so a guy called Ingvar vittfarne, vittfarne would be globetrotter in modern english, came up with the brilliant idea to let the Arabs and Bysantins assemble the stuff them selves.
I was reading in another forum (g+) that one of the persons was asking for a alternative for Ubuntu(now when Ubuntu one has closed, (cloud storage)). Distro jumping? Or?
-using computers as a tool
-using computers as a tool and free time pleasure
-using computers as a tool and free time pleasure and try to find new ways to make life more easy
The list can can be longer. Or shorter.
-Back to my orginial Q, -“To many distros?”. Will we ever found the perfect dist? Does it exist?
It’s unclear what point you were trying to make, if anything useful. It seems to have little to do with “travelling on the left”. First you incorrectly used “UK” which didn’t exist at the time of any conquest of the mainland therein. In fact England wasn’t even unified during the first Viking (Norse raiders) incursion (separate kingdoms, e.g. where Wessex under King Alfred was undefeated).
My guess is that travelling on the left was a practical matter. Consider [horse]men, armed with single-handed weapons such as swords, escorting goods, women, and children along a highway. I can imagine it would be easier for protection to have those on the left-hand side, while keeping their sword arm free to engage with an adversary to their right-hand side. Even for an armed traveller alone on the road, defence or attack would be easier from the left side.
My point? As well as the story of upcoming of Scott independent election (side of the road). UK? A bunch of of small kingdoms located in Brittish Island then. Powerfull at that time. The history has gain and made a judgment that the ideas was not right. Most known and influence is US independence declaration. India. China. South Africa, Rodesia… A long list.
Please read me right, I’m enjoy this subject.lol! .
Discussing political issues are off-limits here according to forum rules. That one is very much a modern political issue. Historically you can blame it on the Romans for dividing our mainland with the Hadrian Wall.
UK? A bunch of of small kingdoms located in Brittish Island then. Powerfull at that time.
No, not powerful enough since they were not united as a fighting force against raiders, and not allies. One of King Alfred’s later successors, King Aethelstan began building England as a nation. After several more Kings, the second so-called Viking incursion (Danes mainly) was successful in London (via the Thames) and resulted with the Dane, Cnut as King of England. He actually sent the Danish soldiers back home.
Of course there was also fighting into Scotland and Wales during these years. After King Cnut (aka Canute) died here, and one more significant King, Edward the Confessor who died childless in 1066, a disputed succession existed between the appointed King Harold II and William, Duke of Normandy. Harold finished off the last Viking incursion into the north, and soon after that and the journey south, a weakened English army lost at the battle of Hastings 1066.
Otherwise. I found it interesting to read your side/opinion of history. Normandy? What was it? Or maybe who were them?
You can check the English historical points I mentioned, even on the internet, especially wrt the English Kings. Over the last few years there have been many more TV programmes made for the BBC by well-qualified historians. So we get to see the original sources/documents and more of the ongoing archaeological evidence. However, what isn’t so clear for the Viking period is the distinction between raiders or marauders, and genuine settlers. That appears to have evolved over many years here, but the Vikings apparently didn’t produce or leave much literature as evidence.
Yes, I know the Normans were descended from Norsemen, but that isn’t why the Norman Duke William invaded England. Again you can read the history via the internet.
Mr.Confused. Once again I’m sorry that I step close to the line of modern politics. I learned a lot from reading your posts. May I refer towikipedia about who the where.
I have to acknowledge "but the Vikings apparently didn’t produce or leave much literature as evidence.
". True. About the Swedes. The Danish and Norwegian are in some ways documented by the Icelandic writers
Excuse me if I seem a bit consused here, but which distro travels on the left, which distro travels on the right, and is there a distro that travels down the centre?:?:?
lol! Heard of it, but not read it. That’s the one that amusingly poked fun at the way English History was taught in schools pre-WWII. Before my time.
The Victorians pre-1901 were fond of re-engineering history for whatever purpose. However, modern historians have done a good job in sorting facts from fiction, and carefully researching the primary sources.
Hello Fraser_Bell!
I have missed to say hello. Interesting avatar you have. Even I have lived with 4 of them. More to larger animals/ larger working dogs all my years… BC I figured out. Do you still have snow? We have. Any comments about NHL-top fights?
No problem. Difficult to avoid politics, given widespread interest in certain news items in front of in recent days.
Thanks for the link, I will definitely read it with interest. I think much of continental Europe was involved in local power struggles in that period of history.
Back to that old subject of too many distros, or not…
Ah… Well if you place openSUSE on centre road (it tries to appeal to advanced and new linux users), you could place the likes of Fedora and Arch on the left and Debian/derivatives on the right, or vice-versa. We might need to introduce multi-lane travel on left and right, but keep a single central reservation. Any unstable distro will spend time stalled on the “hard-shoulder”.
