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<div><br></div>I just want to say: I agree...<br><br><div>> To: mokurai@earthtreasury.org<br>> Subject: Re: Sugar Commander <br>> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:23:42 -0700<br>> From: gnu@toad.com<br>> CC: devel@lists.laptop.org; walter.bender@gmail.com; object404@gmail.com<br>> <br>> > >> I'm sorry, I don't mean to ruffle any feathers, but the flat journal<br>> > >> is a really broken model when you stick in a USB stick with 2000+<br>> <br>> The flat journal worked great on 8" floppies. It was obsoleted<br>> in 1982 or so.<br>> <br>> The whole emphasis on the "journal as filesystem interface" was<br>> another of those grand OLPC experiments. Unfortunately, unlike the<br>> mesh, its failure was not followed by junking it and replacing it with<br>> "what every other computer does -- what works". This journalism<br>> religion is also a major reason why kids can't read or edit the source<br>> code of the OLPC -- because it isn't visible in a journal, and if it<br>> was in there, it would be painful or impossible to find or organize.</div><div><br></div><div>Yes!</div><div><br>> <br>> > The new Unity 2D UI that Ubuntu defaults to makes the same decision,<br>> > and it works well.<br>> <br>> It works so well that I won't be using Ubuntu in the next release,<br>> because they are forcing everyone to run Unity, I think on the theory<br>> that if they force enough people to use it, some of them will fix all<br>> the bugs and misfeatures in it. Unfortunately for them, this is not<br>> a market where they have any power to compel users; we'll just go<br>> elsewhere.<br>> <br>> John<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Devel mailing list<br>> Devel@lists.laptop.org<br>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel<br></div> </div></body>
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