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Linus on SCO, and the Desktop Being 10 Years Away

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In this interview from last week's Linux.conf.au in Australia, Linus Torvalds talks about how the SCO lawsuit 'riled' him and led him to spend a week writing an application to archive his email, and how he think Linux will take 5 to 10 years to become mainstream on the desktop."

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  1. Linux for desktop by theascent · · Score: 0, Troll

    Linux as kernel is almost ready for good desktop. The one and only obstacle is X-window!

  2. Older apps break under new versions of Linux by logicassasin · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is another thing that bothers me about Linux; most older apps simply do not work on newer distributions. I have a few disks of little "cool" apps from my Windows 3.11 days (circa '94 and 95) that still work with WindowsXP. Hell, I even have DOS apps that still work with XP. The same cannot be said for Linux. It's very true that there are some apps that were built for Dos/3.11/win95 that don't work with XP, but those numbers are NOTHING compared to the numbers of older apps that refuse to run on newer Linux distros. Backwards compatibility is probably going to be the biggest hurdle Linux will have.

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