I keep it synced with subversion.

The problem with your analogy is that it is possible to have an internet (one or more connected, yet autonomous, networks that are not connected to the Internet (a global connection of connected, yet automomous, networks taken as a unit). It's more like a clump of dirt is earth, but Earth is a planet.

Go figure. http://zenmagnets.com/

And you could echo control characters to open a new window. But it wasn't echo. I think the command name was 'display'. Used to know it by heart, now I'm old.

I do the work that allows Developers, among many others, to do their work. My team keeps the Infrastructure humming.

Like I need another reason to avoid GNOME 3. If anything, that's a point in FreeBSD's favor. :-)

GNOME 3, systemd, autokey, just to name a few. Now they're saying that everything belongs in /usr/bin.

Those who don't understand UNIX are doomed to re-invent it, badly. Evidently, as Fedora.

Maybe I'm just getting too old for this, but I'd rather have improvements in the tools that work than to have to learn a completely new tool every year because somebody decided that the old way is wrong because they didn't invent it. I guess Vim will be on the block next.

Are we, as a community, absolutely certain that "release early, release often" is always the best way to go?

That's why more people that aren't necessarily happy with GNOME need to take the survey. I've used GNOME since the 1.0 days, but GNOME3 was enough to make me install XFCE4 -- and I'm considering dropping the whole Desktop Environment thing altogether and going back to fvwm (or something similar)

Maybe I'm just old, but I think the current direction of development has lost sight of the reason XWindows was created in the first place. The client and server shouldn't have to be on the same host. The User should be able to customize their own environment in whatever way makes it easier for them to work.