OSDL To Start Pushing on Desktop Linux

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.

Comments

Re:This happens year after year

[azzy]

Shush, don't say 'emerge' you'll wake the Gentoo crowd.

IBM PPC970

[niko9]

IBM should release specs for a reference G5 motherboard that you can run linux on.

I can dream, can I not?

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Re:Way Off...

[gangien]

Actually you probably have; the biggest part of "DLL hell" is that you need two different versions of the same library (a .dll and a .so have analogous roles). The Linux solution is to have libfoo.so.6 and libfoo.so.5 in /usr/lib with libfoo.so as a link to the newest one; that way you can run applications that require both libraries. Windows does offer a similar solution but FAR too in most cases vendors simply overwrite foo.dll with their version of foo.dll, so that whatever apps relied on the earlier version are now completely hosed.

yes i've done this manually myself. that's the problem.. But in windows i've never seen something overwrite dll's without asking me first or it does and it doesn't create any noticible problems for me. But my point is, with various experiences with linux distros redhat, mandrake, suse, slackware and with windows 95-xp things seem to install a ton better than they do in linux. Of course the upgrade services i've seen are damned good. but like i said.. go outside of them.. yikes