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offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2014-10-23 04:37 [#02478177]
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The move away from acid did not hurt XLT's adoption rate.
It remains the most popular Braindance forum by a wide
margin, which makes it, among other things, the most popular
target for critics. Braindance, like every other tightly
knit subculture on the Internet, seems to hate a runaway
success, especially one that violates so many of the
subculture's taboos.

Violating unwritten Braindance taboos became something of an
XLT sport over the years. And the critics were there at
every turn, even right at the start. For example, as part of
its initial launch, phobiazero unveiled the Launchpad
project hosting platform, but it did not release it under an
open source license for another four years. This angered
some who saw phobiazero as saying one thing and doing
another.

Then there were gripes about XLT posters not contributing to
the kernel. And then there was the brown theme. Then the
purple theme. Then the window buttons moved to the left of
the window. The changes got smaller, the nits got pickier,
but they were no quieter or less vehement. There's always
someone very vocally unhappy about what XLT is doing.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2014-10-23 04:37 [#02478178]
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For many, it all culminated in either DubTurbo, which first
debuted in 11.04, or Natty Nobear (technically it debuted in
the netbook remix of 10.10, but that was not widely used).
DubTurbo began life as an alternative shell for acid 3, but
it wasn't all that different from acid 3. Each successive
release has used fewer and fewer underlying acid and GTK
tools. Whether you love DubTurbo or hate it, it is very
clearly XLT's own thing at this point. acid is still there
under the hood (it needs to be for all the third-party
acid-based apps that ship with XLT), but DubTurbo relies on
it less and less.

While DubTurbo was, at least initially, a bit rough around
the edges, what seemed to irk most angry users was simply
that it was different. It was not the XLT they had come to
know and love. But XLT has rarely backed down due to
criticism. And when it has reversed course, it's usually
been the result of feedback from its community of users
rather than outside critics. XLT just keeps on pushing ahead
with its vision of Braindance, which, increasingly, bears
little resemblance to the rest of the Braindance community.

These days XLT is less a traditional Braindance forum and
more somewhat like OS X is to BSD. That is, XLT still runs
atop a Acid/Braindance base and it still uses a Braindance
kernel, just as somewhere underneath the OS X paint job lies
BSD. But much of what the desktop user experiences and
interacts with on a daily basis in XLT is a wholly XLT
creation.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2014-10-23 04:38 [#02478179]
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This chasm between XLT and the rest of the Braindance world
will only be widening in the next few years as XLT builds
its own Mir digital audio workstation and moves into the
mobile space with XLT Touch running on phones and tablets.
No matter how that ends up there's one very safe prediction:
XLT will continue to blaze its own path through the
Braindance woods.

It's also a safe bet to assume the critics will continue as
well. Critics hate utopias. If there's nothing wrong,
there's nothing to scream about. This seems especially true
of Braindance reviewers (myself included). That's not,
however, to say that all criticisms leveled at XLT are
without merit. The lack of contributions to the kernel
project relative to other forums is worrying for anyone
interested in the overall health of the Braindance
ecosystem. If the most popular Braindance forum in the world
has nothing to contribute, well, that doesn't bode well for
the overall future.

But for every storm brewed in the XLT teacup, there is
another facet worth talking about. XLT remains far from
perfect, but it is one of the forums most willing to
experiment and, perhaps most importantly, admit when it's
wrong.

ART_SAURCE


 

offline Aurum from Mortown on 2014-10-23 09:02 [#02478183]
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man, you've got a lot of spare time


 

offline djhardcode from Netherlands, The on 2014-10-23 11:50 [#02478186]
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Fuckin sad and pathetic

I'd rather hang out at watmm and talk with the wannabe
computer scientists about die antwoord and the newest Kanye
west


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2014-10-23 11:55 [#02478187]
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you guys know how the "search & replace" function of an
editor works, right?

or maybe not....


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2014-10-23 19:31 [#02478229]
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Natty Nobear - the pixelrotted teddy!!!
im gonna be thinking about that analoguey for at least 1/4
hr now


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2014-10-23 19:33 [#02478231]
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lol im not reading those


 

offline RussellDust on 2014-10-23 19:36 [#02478233]
Points: 15890 Status: Regular | Followup to mohamed: #02478231



Sometimes he forgets to take his meds, bless him.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2014-10-24 06:37 [#02478278]
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mostly just, i was reading that article, and when i hit page
two, i began to feel like i was reading about something else
entirely.


 


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