I just found this video, it’s Linus presentation on git. It’s more a “why you should choose DSCM and more specifically git” with a high dose of Linus ego. But apart from that he point one important thing that most of the times gets on a secondary place on almost all the projects, PERFORMANCE.
The idea that got my attention was, “If you can do something really fast, really well, people start using it different” (50:30). And he is right and how many times in the history of computers did we saw this happening ? a lot! a few that got to my mine now,
Desktop search, who ever used the default windows search feature ? I think no one, people used to have the stuff on his desktop organized so they could find things quick, till Google Desktop appeared or they changed to MAC OS X and stated using Spotlight, or Beagle in Linux.
These are great news. For those of you who never used Enlightenment, it was used on GNOME as WM in the begging and it’s a really fast. I used it quite a bit while i was using gentoo on my old Thinkpad T30, it ’s a great program. Why these are great news,
E-17 will actually go stable after years of “unknown future”
Rasterman is working for openmoko, this mean that they will probably get ride of that ugly orange theme (come on it’s openMOKO at least it should be green :P)
Rasterman will be making a new theme, not that the actual one is ugly but you get bored easily
For those who never saw it, here some screenshots,
I have infinite tales about working with Microsoft Office for my University works. I’m not saying that the competitors are great but if you use the open source ones at least you have the chance to change that. For this an open format is needed, but this is not the case of ooxml.
“Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter” says Eric Raymond
