linux-kernel - Re: Suggestions for the Future of Linux

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Message-ID: <CAFLxGvykHyd0A1FZajUk51LcBTSma+tcZA94VTfVqBRqaZyiTw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 7 Sep 2012 21:56:18 +0200
From:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	Angela Bernard <agelbernard@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Suggestions for the Future of Linux

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Angela Bernard <agelbernard@...il.com> wrote:
> Peoples, we're entering a new era of tech - so let's get Linux going
> the way people want it to.
>
> 1: Remove ethernet support. Ethernet is just bloat - devices only have
> it for the stubborn old geezers. Other than that, no one really uses
> it. Get over it.
>
> http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/12/13/is-it-the-end-for-ethernet/
>
>  Who expects that thick cabling running through our offices? I don't!
>
> 2: Remove multi-monitor support
>
> The new way for technology is mobile. The desktop is dead, and Linux
> on the desktop has been deader than dead since it was conceived. No
> one, even on the desktop space, really even uses multi-monitors,
> anyways.
>
> 3: Remove support for multiple users - no one really expects a single
> device to be used by two people!
>
> 4: Ending optical drive support - when's the last time you ever bought
> something on disk for use in your Linux box? The CD, DVD and Blu-Ray
> are today what the Floppy was 15 years ago - obsolete and yet still in
> use - where you need multiple disks for one thing - And even most
> people's internet are faster than a CD drive.
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Thanks,
//richard
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