Subject: RE: The sky is falling
neil@neilmoomey.com
Date: Wed Nov 05 2003 - 08:53:14 AKST
I think Linux is ready for the desktop for power users but it's just not ready for average users or to compete with Windows and OS X. Linux still needs to fix the dependency problems, stability of applications, drivers, and desktops, and partnerships with vendors so they start making drivers. Red Hat simply failed on the desktop. If Apple can turn FreeBSD into OS X then Red Hat could have turned Linux into something even better had they tried. Red Hat quickly realized the money is on the server where IT can hide Linux from the users and save on the per client licenses. Personally I think with disk space and bandwidth becoming so cheap Linux should abandon the library approach to software. Each app should have it's own libraries bundled. This would eliminate the dependency problem forever. The downside is each software package will be a much larger download. A typical Linux install uses less than 10 percent of the hard disk space so I don't see it as a show stopper. I'm sur
Neil
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