Too Much Free Software

An anonymous reader writes "The plethora of Free Software applications available today, none working perfectly, is a problem which stands in the way of major adoption of Linux on the desktop. In order to conquer the desktop, we have to stand united. Read the article on Freshmeat."

Comments

Bug

[missing000]

You seem to be missing an include statement.

Re:Bug

[cushty]

And the fact that it should be int main(int argc, char *argv[]) but who am I to quibble.

Re:Please.

[rf0]

We we arguing the Hello World program and actually came to the conclusion that if it doesn't have an output then it might fail. The only program we though was bug free was "return 0"

Rus

Re:Please.

[swb]

It has other problems. Lack of international support, hard-coded text, no configuration options. Some users are demanding a GUI, KDE/Gnome support and a port to Java as well. I've even heard talk of a version that's capable of using MySQL.

There's also some concern that Microsoft is going to release their own version with Palladium support.

Re:Too much Microsoft software...

[buffy]

Steve? I thought his wife's name was Melinda.

I wasn't talking about his wife. I was talking about his bitch. ;)

-buf

Re:Please.

[zulux]

main()
{
printf("Hello world\n");
exit(0);
}

Now you have seen it.

For you MCSE types:

10 print "Hello World"

And for you advanced MCSE types:

10 print "Hello World"
20 goto 10

And for you L33t MCSE type:

10 ? "Hello World"
20 run

(look at that optimisation baby!)

Re:We do it for fun, don't we?

[rabidcow]

So stop seeing all software as a personal editor. It aint.

I take it you don't use emacs.