Re: I've thought better of Linux

Tim X <timx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> While I am not convinced Linux will ever be a real contender in the
> market for desktop solutions, there is a rapidly growing market for
> commercial software running on Linux within the server marketplace.

Well, I think a lot of the chatter regarding "desktop linux" is based on
a very sloppy, and very bad definition of what linux is. This results
in a heck of a lot of complaints about look and feel issues that have
very little to do with linux per se.

Linux is just a kernel, drivers, and a fairly small set of basic
utilities. That's it.

Now, on top of that you can build desktop environments, servers, thin
clients, cell phones, and POS systems. You can bundle a set of related
software together with a given configuration and call it something like,
Mandriva, Knoppix, Debian, or SuSE.

But a bit too often, I see complaints about Linux that have very little
to do with actually using Linux.

--
Kirk Job-Sluder
"The square-jawed homunculi of Tommy Hilfinger ads make every day an
existential holocaust." --Scary Go Round
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