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Linus Says 2004 is the Year for Desktop Linux
lca writes "Linuxworld Australia has an interview with Linus Torvalds about the current state of the Linux desktop and where it will go this year among other things. Also discussed are topics such as hardware support, the SCO issue, and whether or not he will be moving to Australia."
"Linus says 2005 is the Year for Desktop Linux"
Followed by
"Linus says 2006 is the Year for Desktop Linux"
"Linus says 2007 is the Year for Desktop Linux"
"Linus says 2008 is the Year for Desktop Linux"
"Linus says 2009 is the Year for Desktop Linux"
Just because 'his holiness' proclaims it, it don't make it a reality.
CW: What are your thoughts on the recent SCO issue?
LT: I'm really sorry for stealing the code. *sniffles* I hope Mr. McBride will go easy and not eat my family.
The CORRECT text is:
"This week has been good and I'm happy to see Novell release a letter that SCO is violating Novell's agreements. SCO also had to make available its case to IBM. This reaffirms the fact that this is not about copyrights but a contract agreement with IBM."
How is his input vital for desktops which are KDE/GNOME dominated now, projects he is not involved with...
He's going to pick either KDE or Gnome and merge it with his tree. IMHO, that will be the only way that Linux can succeed on the desktop. Multiple GUI environments are the bane of both programmer and end-user. While I do agree that it is nice to have choices in certain cases, "Desktop Linux" is not helped at all.
Linus needs to pick one and create a "desktop" tree. Otherwise, Joe and Joeanne User will stick with Windows. I know that I will.
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
...2004 is the year of the Windows desktop.
How can these two brilliant minds...Aww,
poopy pants! For great justice!!
a good kernel, and a good filesystem. both of which imply BSD.
On Linux, you can either browse the web, do signifigant ( >5meg) file copying OR listen to audio files. One at a time, and certainly not all three at the same time. To try to mix two of those tasks will bring the system to a slow crawl.
This is NOT true for BSD or even windows XP (for fuck's sake!); which is probably why apple chose BSD as the core kernel of their OS despite linux being available for their platform.
My machine crashes once a week. X sucks.
Don't overestimate it, either. Windows 9x got along for years with a shitty DOS kernel, but the interface worked consistently and applications ran nicely.
"Sufferin' succotash."
Linux is worthless as a desktop OS.
Another more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Linux community when CmdrTaco confirmed that the number of Linux users has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all the internet-using population. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Linux has lost more and more users, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Linux is collapsing in complete disarray.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Linux because Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for Linux. As many of us are already aware, Linux continues to lose users. Red ink flows like a river of blood, spewing forth from between the legs of CowboyNeal and his big, hairy mangina.
Linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Linux is to survive at all it will be among lowly nerds and hacks. Linux continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Linux is dead.
Fact: Linux is dead.
First linux needs more standards.
In 2010 when everyone is running Windows Longhorn's successor, I'll be sure to remember khasim's post predicting total Linux domination in six years. Microsoft and Apple are supposed to just magically disappear during all this, and all Windows progress is supposed to halt.
Look at all the people who proclaimed that Linux would "take over" now that Longhorn is a late '05 product. Yet, XP is clearly here to stay, with a major SP2 release coming up soon. It's amusing.
"Sufferin' succotash."
I was elected President of the United States.
Silly Gore.....
By the way, he's in New York today in -30 (windchill) to talk about global warming. Man knows how to set the stage....
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