OSDL To Start Pushing on Desktop Linux

Posted by Hemos on Thursday November 13, 2003 @02:31AM from the beyond-the-backroom dept.

Psyke writes "The Australian Financial Review is reporting that 'IBM, Red Hat and a consortium of computer makers backed by the likes of Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Intel will push to move the Linux operating system out of the back office from next year.' and 'Meanwhile, the OSDL, which has largely worked on improving Linux's ability to run large servers, said it would work on improving Linux's performance on ordinary desktop computers.'" The article itself is a little off- those companies are working *through* the OSDL of which they are members - along with a number of additional companies as well.

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Re:Way Off... by gangien · 2003-11-13 03:37 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I call meta-meta-bullshit then.

WTF do you think the phrase "DLL hell" was invented to describe?

While this is true, In my experience, things tend to install and work on windows a ton better than they do on linux. instlal something manually and everything goes to hell with rpms and apt. I've not had this problem with windows. Plus I seem to have encountered the need for multiple versions of the same friggin library, which is something i've never come accross in win. But this is all in my experience so take it for what it's worth.