purists

LinuxPlanet: "The need for Mono's Moonlight project, which allows Microsoft's Silverlight to run on Linux, might be questioned by many Linux purists, but the fact remains that there will be websites developed using Silverlight."

TechWorld: "Last week I copped a bit of flack over my “when Linux has a bad day” blog, which highlighted all the problems I was having trying to just get on with my work.

For the purists who think I was misguided by labelling Linux, well Linux, I wasn't. I was merely reporting my own experience with the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) release 10."

Some may know about the Geeko’s Tube, I’m not so sure that many do though. There has been for a while now tube.opensuse.org, this is the official repository of videos by openSUSE people.

All the video is in .ogg format, and as such will play straight out of the box regardless of whether users are purists/pragmatists/whatever.

At what point do we accept that – whether we like it or not – closed source applications will eventually have to be let in to this otherwise "open" world?

After all, this has already been happening for years, despite the Linux purists kicking and screaming the entire time.

While Ruby and Groovy seem to get all of the attention, there's one 'scripting language' - and I'll leave it to the purists to argue the merits of that term and how it applies to these languages - that has been ...

It's been over a year since our last browser wars poll, so it's time for another one!

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