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Rasterman Says Desktop Linux is Dead

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the popular-view-these-days dept.

anguished writes "The future of Linux, its best hopes for blowing past everything else on an x86 machine, once was located in a little Austrailai website, with a window manager called Enlightenment, which we all hoped to be good enough to build and configure. In an interview with Linux and Main, the recently silent Rasterman talks about GNOME, KDE, E, and his view that the future of Linux requires new playing fields."

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  1. I Missed the Obit by Brown+Line · · Score: 2, Informative

    Last night, I just turned off Windows 98 at home.
    It's replaced with the newest Red Hat. My two teen-agers love it (with the sole reservation that they can't run Final Fantasy any more). Our local parochial school is switching to Linux in its computer teaching lab. At work, we're a Fenster-frei environment: we route telephone calls, all done under BSD and SCO.

    So Linux on the desktop is dead, eh? Guess a lot of people like me just missed the obituary.

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  2. Re:Well.. by psavo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Exactly. Adboce, for instance, will keep shipping their ugly Motif-baed Reader, in the absence of a standard.

    In the case of adobe, it's all about 'history'. once upon a time they bought some kit which allowed them to develop apps simultaneously for Win16/Unix. That kit used Motif. ATM, company which made the kit, is probably dead. If They would switch over to something like wxWindows, they could use any kit on unix side. AFAIK adobe apps always come statically compiled anyways.

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  3. Re:Slashdot is CENSO**NG YOU!! IMPORTANT Please RE by Spruce+Moose · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think he does. It's what crapflooders do.

  4. Desktop Linux is only two months old by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    You're right, Desktop Linux is doing fine.

    That's especially true when you consider that Linux only really entered the desktop market two months ago, with the release of OpenOffice 1.0.

    That follows the release, also within recent months, of Mozilla 1.0, and Evolution 1.0.

    Linux entered the server market in a serious way around five years ago. Now Linux runs on a third of the Intel-based servers.

    Linux entered the embedded, supercomputer, amnd mainframe markets, all within the last three or four years, and Linux is already a major factor in all those markets. Windows has gottent nowhere in those markets.

    And now, Linux just entered the Desktop market.

    It's a bit premature to be declaring it dead.