So our local city / county governments are about to consolidate and an interesting situation has arisen.The County is a full ISS / ASP.net shop while The City is a full L.A.M.P. / Drupal organization. The County has hundreds of custom built asp pages and does not want to use a CMS as they prefer to build their own and keep their code in-house. The City on the other hand uses a LAMP / Drupal...
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/trae aka: OcToBrX MyCaPsRsTuCk
FrAnTiC fOr CaKe
One of the things that drew me to Linux, was the ability to configure and tweak and change things to suit ones personal tastes. This has always been a hallmark, a calling card of the Open Source community.
With Gnome 3.0 and Unity, they have taken a giant leap towards the dark side. I can't believe this has happened.
I wish I could put all my feelings into words as aptly as this author has. I wish I could describe how betrayed, how abandoned and utterly dismayed I am by what I've seen in these latest offerings, but I can't.
Where can you change the fonts? Where can you set keyboard preferences? Where can you set it up so you can move the bar at the bottom of Unity? So many issues, so little time.
All of these things are set-backs and not leaps forwards.
Canonical should hire me and I would guide this ship back to its former glory as well as bringing a vision for desktop dominance in the future.