My two cents re: library. I can envision a day when Linux is well
established and people want to go back and inspect the "geological record"
of Linux history, so to speak. Questions such as: What was a Red hat 4.2
install like? What functionality did Slackware 4 have? What could I do with
an early Debian distro? I don't know if it's any kind of great burden to
keep the dinosaur distros around, but someday it will all be GUI this and
GUI that (for most users, I think). I think there will be people interested
in the old distros for historical/documentational purposes if nothing else.
Isn't there going to be a 'keeper of the ancient records' for this kind of
stuff? Maybe I am thinking too far ahead, but if nobody else wants to keep
these for archival purposes, by all means, send them my way! Most new users
to Linux will get a very Windows-like experience and many may never drop to
a command line. That's the price of mass appeal. give the people what they
want! I liken it to the Grateful Dead getting a top ten single; whether they
want to be commercially successful and massively popular (with all the
downsides that includes) or not, they are! At this point, you can't put the
genie back in the bottle or un-ring the bell... Be prepared, commercialism
is coming, and how about that Red Hat? Looks like they may be racing to
become the new 800-pound gorilla...?
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