IMO, Unity (somewhat like Perl) is the Devil's flatus.

I fully understand that others believe the Perl and perhaps Unity smell like roses. That's fine with me.

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I've been writing mostly perl for a living since 2000, but wouldn't say it smells like roses. More like diesel fuel :-) it's a "get dirty, but get it done" heavy mover power tool.

Perl code is hard to make pretty, but one doesn't snort cocaine because it smells good.

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LOL

2015: The Second Coming of "Bob"! All computers in the world found to be running Slackware, apparently without any human intervention! A miracle!!! Praise "Bob"!

Wrong section. Never mind.

thought it had already happened!! Prediction or do you have inside information?

Would it be politically incorrect to utter "Slackahu-ack-Bob" when installing Slackware?

In fact I did a fresh install just to follow your suggestion, and will be doing it every boot from now on (here and there followed by "Hail Volkerdingus Caesar"!)

@kikinovak: Regarding your number 4, it has already been announced that systemd will incorporate a fork of the Gummiboot bootloader, so that systemd is able to fully provide a secure bootchain for distros that want to take advantage of Secure Boot.

All hail Emperor Patrickus Volkerdingus I. Long live the holy Slackware empire! Slackahu-ack-Bob!

Shouldn't that be: Bobahu Slackbar?

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Only if you're using the alternative dialect of the lost language of FUBAR. BTW... Nice anagram usage on the initials!

You did not get it.

Good one! Bob is indeed great. LOL.

Very true. Bob is and always was and shall be Bob. Backwards and forwards, upside down, and along the Z axis. Hail Bob!!!

On a more serious note, I think 2015 and maybe 2016 will be an awakening for GNU/Linux in terms of a complete split of the GNU/Linux community. While I think we all have seen and see it coming, the evidence of what happened with Debian in which the technical committee literally caused a huge rift. People wanting software sanity are siding one way, while progressivists are siding another. The kernel right now is in the most heated debate regarding kdbus getting out of -next and into the mainline and stable kernels, but it appears at the moment this will not be happening... yet.

Personally, I feel a split needs to happen, maybe even the kernel forked itself. I see too many people wanting GNU/Linux systems to become another Windows/OS2-like system rather than a BSD/UNIX-like system. This rift honestly is killing the GNU/Linux ecosystem by pushing out many sane stable single-purpose packages with a huge problematic multipurpose package. The gripes of the community wanting speed and performance, rather than stability and compatibility honestly have been sickening when so much software has existed to migrate away from sysvinit/bsdinit for so many years now, or supplement sysvinit/bsdinit yet ignorantly ignored by the masses, maybe even distributions themselves and their maintainers. It's understandable that a few chose not to for simplifying the system and keeping to generalized standards, but when options have existed for several years, only to be willfully ignored by those looking for "the next best thing" is beyond reason, and in that the entirety of GNU/Linux needs to split. UNIX needs to be UNIX whether that be in the form of a UNIX branded system, or a UNIX-Like system. UNIX and UNIX-like systems do not need to be OS2/Windows, especially when people want to leave Windows for a vast number of reasons. If people want another Windows, then go please support and help develop the FOSS project ReactOS. ReactOS has GNU software, is open source, and supports many FOSS applications. Let those of us who want a UNIX-like system to have our UNIX-like system.