Sun's President Dreams of a Linux Future

Sara Chan writes "The Economist has a story analyzing the recent Sun-Microsoft deal. What's especially interesting is the ending. Sun recently promoted Jonathan Schwartz to President and Chief Operating Officer, recognizing the need for radical change if the company is to survive. According to the story, Schwartz's dream is 'to sell deep-discount desktop computers at Wal-Mart, carrying Sun's office applications on top of a Linux operating system'!"

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Re:While we're at it

[Ambassador Kosh]

Fontconfig not working for you in KDE sure is strange I have been using it for over a year now in debian sid.

In my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file there are NO fontpath entries and there have not been for over a year. Since its introduction and kde supporting it fontconfig has worked pretty much flawlessly for me. There where a few buggy packages in debian sid where the font cache did not get updated correctly and you had to run fc-cache but it has been months since that has been a problem.

I compile almost nothing on my systems except for the code that I am working on. I use a debian system because it has just worked for me however I have also used knoppix and recent versions of Mandrake and I have NEVER seen the issues you are talking about. Actually I have not seen library issues of any kind on linux sine redhat 5.2 or so many years ago and I have used many versions.

I have not seen libc issues in a long time on redhat, mandrake, suse, debian, knoppix, etc.

Overall it seems to be cool to knock linux and while it does have issues it would be better if you stuck to real issues that existed. If you are compiling all this software yourself then you should probably stop until you learn how to compile software correctly.