Wow? Are you really that surprised?
You're PR person for Slashdot's favorite browser :)
It's almost like them talking about Linux and never mentioning Linus.
One of the primary differences with Open Source and proprietary commercial software in general is that it seems to focus more on the people and personalities behind the software rather than the organization.
Umm, congrats though... I think...
(watch out for more /. trolls looking at this blog, unfortunately)
You should start your own talk show.
Posted by: Guest on July 23, 2005 03:28 PMOne of the primary differences with Open Source and proprietary commercial software in general is that it seems to focus more on the people and personalities behind the software rather than the organization.yea I noticed that problem ever since there was more media coverage of Firefox. But if you think of writing a story (or producing one for TV), it's just like writing a report for school w5h (who what when where why how). You can go with Mozilla's history (most people/articles get that wrong, anyway). You could go with what Firefox does and why its diffrent (most probably won't even understand this). You could go with how its better than the competition (but then its like making an AD). You could go with the motivation and how this came about. And that usually leads to what most stories want: a poster [boy/girl/child/etc.]. Posted by: Joey on July 23, 2005 03:31 PM
For some reason I remember seeing a notblog note on the site, but it seems to be gone now. Did it have something to do with all these mentions on slashdot? :p
The only references of "notblog" are limited to the title attribute of the header on the main page (adot's notblog* -- Asa Dotzler's home on the Web instead of Asa Dotzler on firefox, cats, mars, and more), atom feed title on the main page, and the filename of the page icon.
Posted by: Edward Lee on July 23, 2005 05:39 PMAsa, going back to the 'Linux is not ready' theme, I don't know if you've read this.
Knowledgable guy, he tried really hard to switch to desktop Linux but finally gave up. Interesting read.
Posted by: miguel on July 23, 2005 08:38 PMWow. I'm mentioned on /. again.
Well, just about everything is mentioned on slashdot again these days.
Posted by: Noam on July 24, 2005 12:24 AMI bet you'll be mentioned again shortly when the Slashdot editors dupe this story. :-D
Posted by: Robert Morris on July 24, 2005 04:27 PMMicrosoft is too, and s/he use and up-to-date Firefox:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=156854&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&tid=109&mode=thread&pid=13150188
Heh, it was pretty funny. July 16 trunk build too!
Posted by: Jug on July 24, 2005 06:02 PMmiguel,
I find these articles and blogs about people who desperately "tried" to "switch to linux", labouriously working through their problems and reporting on every one of them to be completely laughable.
If you like computers and you like the unix and or linux system, use it, if not STFU. That's the bottom line. Nobody gives a flying crap about your personal trials and tribulations in trying out linux.
I think somebody needs to tell these people to STFU.
I'm doing an LFS distro right now and I'll soon be working on an anaconda like installer and packaging RPM's for my first distro, and you know what it will be called? STFU linux, and anybody that comes from windows crying about how they don't like linux for this and that reason will receive the same stfu answer from the official stfu linux team.
I've been working on linux for close to 7 years now and I think it's about time somebody put out a distro with an attitude that makes no apologies whatsoever. I hope I'm the person to do that. I may not have it out by the end of the year, but when I do I think it will be cool.
LFS is kind of like that, but I want to make a binary RPM redistributable distro with an offensive name.
Cheers
Posted by: Beer on July 24, 2005 07:02 PMOh no... slashdot has been defiled... again...
Firefox isn't the favorite of Slashdot... Lynx and Opera are.
Posted by: Shashir on July 27, 2005 08:33 AM