From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2004-03-03T15:06:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Rubyx OS (Ruby oriented linux distro)

Gavri Savio Fernandez wrote:

>>Thanks! I've submitted a short piece about Rubyx to Slashdot, 
>>entitled "Rubyx 
>>OS - a testament to the power of ruby?". I hope they post it :)
> 
> 
> it's been accepted. 
> can be found here:    http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/03/0150252

Sadly, it got the typical negative response that non Perl/Python scripting always seems to get on slashdot.

I was particularly amazed that one reply complained (admittedly, in a reasonably inoffensive way) about the Ruby focus of the distribution. I guess if you'd just called it the Gphrozggen distribution and it just happened to make a lot of use of Ruby, all the slashdotters would have been happy :-).

I really do despair at all those people who seem to be focused on Perl/Python and then consider it ridiculous that someone could be focused on "yet another scripting language".

Harry O.