Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Which Desktop Distro Will Die First?

Posted by timothy on from the draw-straws-folks dept.

Over at NewsForge, Roblimo asks the musical question of which of the several recently released "desktop oriented" Linux distributions won't survive the coming year. It's nice to see user-centric distributions at all, but it really is a niche market for now. Apropos that, psykocrime writes "The fine folks at UnitedLinux have issued a Press Release announcing UnitedLinux 1.0. Should be interesting to see whether this sinks or swims, considering the general ambivalence (at best) or even outright hostility (at worst) that most of the talk about United Linux has met, from the Linux community. Questions about GPL compliance, per-set licensing terms, etc... is this the future or Linux or just another albatross?" And J. J. Ramsey writes "BeyondUnreal reviews not only Xandros Desktop's installation, but also shows what this distro's $99 price tag actually gets you. Read more here. LinuxPlanet also has an in-depth review of its own."

3 of 512 comments (clear)

  1. DEBIAN by mr_gerbik · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I just wanted to piss you all off. Move along now. Don't forget to mod me down.

  2. Got an opinion? by SexyKellyOsbourne · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    At least bet on a Linux distro in a dot-com deadpool.

    http://www.fuckedcompany.com

    There are 17 HOF-fucks already for Linux companies, and with the economy, I expect a lot more:

    http://comments.fuckedcompany.com/fc/phparchives/s earch.php?search=linux

    My picks? Lindows and SuSe, and quite possibly Slackware. Lindows because it's iillegal, and SuSe and Slackware due to general lack of popularity, corporate backing, and maintenance.

  3. my wish by chump+daddy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    is that debian dies.

    every single person I know who uses debian is so religiously pro-debian that they refuse to accept the existance of anything else.

    They also are all complete fuckwits, stuck up arrogant wankers, and think they know more than they actually do.

    And debian has a habit of doing software updates automatically for the users by default, thus stopping people how to do software updates on their own.

    the whole heart of linux comes from hackers who love to futz around day and night trying to get software working.

    debian has brought fuckwits into the scene who don't know anything about the systems their administering.