Subject: RE: Debunking the Linux-Windows market-share myth - March 14, 2003
From: Larry Collier (larry@medease.com)
Date: Thu Mar 20 2003 - 13:21:08 AKST
But the large majority of home users don't share printers, don't have a
network, and a large number of them have the machine to play games and do
recipes. A multi-operating system, like you have is, I think, quite unusual
for the home. My home layout is also heterogeneous. Our systems normally
would appear in business and would have experts to set up the hardstuff.
As for windows being easy, we support customer lans of windows flavors and
linux servers. It never seems to be as easy as MS says. Something always
seems to take 10 times longer to get working, and then months later just
stops for no reason we can see.
Like I said, I have both on my desk and have far fewer problems with the RH
box than with the 2K box. If I can't setup something in a couple of
minutes, I do what most people do, I ask for help from the other guys who
work here.
I would like to try out one of the latest Macs but the price is just way out
of line.
Larry
-----Original Message-----
From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]On Behalf Of
Michael Gillson
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 7:43 AM
To: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: RE: Debunking the Linux-Windows market-share myth - March 14,
2003
This is somewhat an exaggeration.
I have both Windows XP and RedHat 8
I use Quicken for my finances. I use Dazzle to extract my old video
tapes of the kids. I use Movie Maker reassembly the videos.
My XP machine easily accesses the HP Laser Printer on another XP
machine. I still do not know how to do this on Red Hat 8.
The How-To for Red Hat 8 confuse me.
I use Open Office on both machines and this is good.
Home networking is still challenging for the average user with Windows
even though Microsoft has made it very easy.
When I cannot point and click with my Red Hat 8 to use a shared printer
on my network, the desktop is not ready for the masses.
I have a Red Hat firewall, a Red Hat / Apache Web Server and a Red Hat
machine with Samba and I am very happy but I still
find that Red Hat 8 does not satisfy my everyday desk top client needs
and I know I am not alone in this idea.
If I had no past history of computing and was starting fresh, I would
probably buy an OS X Mac machine which has a good GUI front end
and a stable Unix flavor underneath.
>>> Larry Collier <larry@medease.com> 03/19/03 05:44PM >>>
I think it already is. If it were not why is MS fighting it with such
zeal.
I have two workstations by my desk. One is running WIN2K the other
RH8.0.
There is nothing I can do on the 2K box I can't do on the RH box.
Inertia
(of my customers) is the only thing keeping the 2K box here. I'd much
prefer 2 RH boxes. They don't need to be rebooted anywhere near as
often.
Anyone who can unpack a preinstalled windows could just as well unpack
a
preinstalled RH8.0 and start using either of them.
Larry
-----Original Message-----
From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]On Behalf
Of
Bryan Hickok
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 4:42 PM
To: Stanley Long; AKLUG
Subject: RE: Debunking the Linux-Windows market-share myth - March 14,
2003
When will Linux become a powerful competitor in the desktop OS market?
-----Original Message-----
From: Stanley Long [mailto:slong@customcpu.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 4:39 PM
To: AKLUG
Subject: Debunking the Linux-Windows market-share myth - March 14,
2003
There are dozens of reasons why people have underestimated how
quickly =
Linux has been grabbing Windows' market share.
- March 14, 2003
http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2003/0314.petreley.html=20
<http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2003/0314.petreley.html>
Evans Data Corporation hired me to help out with a research report=20
focused on Linux developers.
Of the developers surveyed, more than 50 percent who now develop=20
primarily for Linux used to develop primarily for Windows.
... This year, Windows commands attention of 50 percent of the=20
developers. Roughly 40 percent focus primarily on Linux. These=20
priorities will switch places almost number-for-number next year. ...
Assuming you could get a reliable snapshot of Windows and Linux
machines =
installed, there is yet another complicating factor that renders
this=20
less-meaningful. Linux runs on far more hardware platforms,
including=20
those that outperform Intel-based systems. Even on Intel, Linux=20
outperforms Windows.
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