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Lack of flammage & trolling = teh good.
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Lack of flammage & trolling = teh good.
Now give your thoughts on the matter
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Interesting and well written, but also a little uninformed in some ways.
Yes Linux does need to unify to become a more solid contender, but thats slowly happening. The 2.6 Kernel is geared solely towards the desktop environment. It makes things faster, easier and even understandable at times. Granted this wont change everything in one fell blow, but it is a major step in the right direction.
The Author Bashes GNU/GPL, saying that its the reason that Linux is as far behind as he percieves it to be. I totally disagree. While M$ may get one single product out the door its not always the best, and any other ideas that may have been better dont get re-added into the next project. With Linux all those forked projects act in a darwinian fashion. The good survive and the rest die. Example. Xine, Mplayer and RealPlayer are the only major video players for linux (there are few others, but really they arent widely used) The best survived and continue to evolve and carry on. While M$ may get one unified package out, its not neccesarily the best and it stagnates due to lack of competition.
I agree that Linux isnt for everyone just yet, but given a few years, it will be a completely different OS, geared very much towards the desktop and easily accessed by everyone.
There is a group that exists to set unified standards for the Linux community, but its voluntary and doesnt neccesarily support the best option (RPM's anyone?), but the most commonly used one. I cant recall the name of the group, maybe Bob does, but its there.
Overall the article is an interesting look at Linux on the Desktop, but not well researched.
Yes Linux does need to unify to become a more solid contender, but thats slowly happening. The 2.6 Kernel is geared solely towards the desktop environment. It makes things faster, easier and even understandable at times. Granted this wont change everything in one fell blow, but it is a major step in the right direction.
The Author Bashes GNU/GPL, saying that its the reason that Linux is as far behind as he percieves it to be. I totally disagree. While M$ may get one single product out the door its not always the best, and any other ideas that may have been better dont get re-added into the next project. With Linux all those forked projects act in a darwinian fashion. The good survive and the rest die. Example. Xine, Mplayer and RealPlayer are the only major video players for linux (there are few others, but really they arent widely used) The best survived and continue to evolve and carry on. While M$ may get one unified package out, its not neccesarily the best and it stagnates due to lack of competition.
I agree that Linux isnt for everyone just yet, but given a few years, it will be a completely different OS, geared very much towards the desktop and easily accessed by everyone.
There is a group that exists to set unified standards for the Linux community, but its voluntary and doesnt neccesarily support the best option (RPM's anyone?), but the most commonly used one. I cant recall the name of the group, maybe Bob does, but its there.
Overall the article is an interesting look at Linux on the Desktop, but not well researched.
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The only problem I had with the article was that he seemed to lump all the distros together. If all you wanna do is play music, surft the 'net, etc. you just have to install Mandrake, Knoppix, or Redhat. Once those distros get rid of their rpm (well, not Knoppix) structure and structure a few of their drivers better, I really wouldn't see a difference between them and Windows for the average user.
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