How Could Cool Penguins Have Such Hot Heads?
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sat, 11/21/2009 - 15:08
I had a moment or two's identification with Caitlyn Martin, who blogged about fallout from a distro review. Yes, I, too, have noticed that there's a cult of sacred-cow-worshippers who take "Linux advocacy" to a dark extreme - believing that loving Linux means never admitting you're wrong.
Hey, remember when I was down on Ubuntu? Things like that. I panned it at the time for exactly the same reasons that Caitlyn was down on Puppy - it wouldn't run on most of her machines. For three years, I had the identical experience with Ubuntu - only this last year, when Ubuntu had a problem with my video (a kernel upgrade broke my nVidia driver, so I had to reinstall it) and booted into a safe recovery desktop which was usable did I finally heave a sigh of relief and declare Ubuntu usable for my purposes.
The famous example of my own experience with community backlash is when I said "Ubuntu is not Linux," which some hotheads were so determined to take the wrong way.
Penguin Pete tackles Caitlyn Martin's complaint ? with honey
White on Black layout killed my vision. Pete, my friend?
We love penguin Pete, but he also had to sell print. So, he puts a spin on sexist mentioned along with Martin's review in keyword association.
Martin complained she is not attacked by sexist, that Penguin Pete dragged in to make blog interesting. But Puppy was degraded by Ms Martin and in a less than technical review(opinionated), flamed Puppy lovers who fix their own bugs in a loving community.
Penguin Pete should know that Puppy fans are newbies learning how to fix or write apps for Puppy. They are technicians not consultants. Technicians did not find Puppy bugs that they can not fix on their own computers.
Drama Queen.
She should stop complaining and ... Well if you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch. arf arf!