GNU Advocates and Homophobia?
I've noticed a disturbing trend lately. Can you guess what it is?
Thaaaaaaaaaat's right! Another chapter in the showdown between David "Lefty" Schlessinger, and the retarded minions of RMS. This time, instead of just discriminating against women, the Anti-Mono GNU zealots also discriminate against gays.
One of their comments:
aren’t he and Bruce Byfield a cute couple, though? They really ought to consummate their gay marriage with 40 grams of viagra each.
Er, what?
Then, Bruce Bryfield jumps in
I’ll ignore the effort at insult and go directly to your implication:
I do not support Schlesinger’s position, or the efforts of Boycott Boycott Novell, any more than I support Roy Schestowitz and Boycott Novell. Do a search, and you can find at least two instances where I make that clear.
I can interact with Schlesinger because he doesn’t become rabid because I don’t support him, and that he is able to read in context instead of indulging in intellectual bungee-jumping towards conclusions. But the interactions are on the basis of agreeing to disagree.
Everyone who opposes him would do their position a lot of good if they acted the same way. For all I know, the owner of this site may have a legitimate grievance against Schlesinger. But his obsessive posting and reposting of the same material is tiresome and counter-productive.
The same freetard comments back:
I find it homophobic of you that you classify implied gay love as an “insult”, Bruce.
Fly high, Lesbian Seagull!
So it seems that the freetards are finally playing this game.
I will just point out that I went and commented as well, as was shot down with this:
What’s so heinous about implying they have a relationship together? You claim to support gay people Shane….. But.. You attack him for pointing out a happy gay couple? Hypocrisy +1
Mother fucker. As someone that is
1.) Appalled by this sort of behavior.
2.) Somewhere in the spectrum of gay. (I mainly date transgendered people)
3.) An LGBT activist in Central Illinois
I find it really fucking childish and offensive. How far will Free Software advocates fall to "prove a point"
So, We Apparently Have a New Site
So yeah, I'm a day late and a dollar short for bringing this up just now, but Linsux.org has gone through some major changes. What changes, you ask?
-Sexy blog aggregation
-Spiffy IBP forums, with new community modules.
-Upcoming work on new staff-produced content.
-A logo that looks like utter sex. The good kind. Yeah.
Anyways, a lot has happened as we attempt to shift our capabilities to a very community-centric approach. As one forumer put it (and I love this) "It's like Linsux is the Anti-Slashdot!"
That's fucking awesome in my opinion.
Linsux.org, now on Google Wave
For those of you that have Wave accounts, feel free to hit us up and check us out.
If you can't see this, point your browser to
https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252BGvlBmb98A
Soon.Home Project
An ongoing discussion on the Linsux.org boards has piqued my interests. One of FreeBSD's big problems is that much of its code is dependent on the GNU toolchain and compilers. While one could argue that the GPL and BSD licenses can go together, we all can agree that the GPL puts BSD developers at a disadvantage. The GPL is more restrictive.
Petrus4 brought up an interesting point: if someone were to do an all-BSD (or similar to BSD) licensed system, how would one do it? The license rules out desktop software such as Gnome or KDE, although E17 is certainly still available.
So I decided as a test to first try seeing how well E17 runs on FreeBSD 8.0.
As you can see in the screenshot, I did it in VirtualBox as I'm still fairly unfamiliar with the inner workings of FreeBSD in general. Well, there's no better time to learn about the system than right now!
This was just a simple build from the Ports tree. Sadly, at the time I hadn't learned the "pkg_add -r [PACKAGENAME]" function, so I ended up doing a full on compilation that took three days (pulling dependencies from everywhere). Hey, it's all a learning experience, right? Anyways, it turns out the version of E17 in Ports is a little behind the current one, and so I'm looking at possibly building the latest E17 SVN in order to build all of the other third-party apps that use ETK.
I used the run-of-the-mill GNU tools, but the ultimate goal is to figure out if I can build everything using LLVM and Clang.
Wish me luck!
Where It’s At
Been listening to a lot of Beck lately, so excuse the title.
There's been a lot going on at our site. We're hammering out some new details over banning in our updated Terms of Service. For the most part, we'd like to do something entirely opposite of communities such as the Ubuntu Forums. Many of the admins over there adhere to the "We ban because we can." mentality. Linsux.org is aiming for a more democratic stance. New members with a minimal amount of posts that violate the TOS will be banned immediately, but when a regular member violates our TOS the entire community will be able to weigh in and vote on whether a member stays or not.
Our testbed is still dealing with the best way to launch the new front-end for our site. Essentially, it's a Joomla CMS. We're looking at the ways we can adjust our content to retain a hard-hitting style whilst reaching a broader audience. As anyone who has started a news/media site can attest, it's a huge task. We have to deal with organization, usability, design, and most importantly content. Content is going to be the big turning point for us.
At its heart, Linsux.org was always intended to be a a satire site with a heavy dose of truth. After all, sometimes the best critics for the FOSS communities are those that keep tabs in the FOSS community itself. However, we've come to feel that Linsux needs to extend to fullfill that original purpose, rather than just keeping a small troll community. Granted, those "trolls" will still exist here, but the fact is that the important things will float to the top, i.e, the frontend. Those not willing to experience the harsher aspects of dealing with us can just read the front page and be on their merry way.
According to Nathan, quite a lot of work is being done with the theme and logo. It's going to be exciting to see what we come up with!