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Gaël Duval on Mandrake, GNU/Linux in 2005

Posted by timothy on Monday January 31, 2005 @02:05PM from the look-out-it's-manbat dept.

uninet writes "To catch up on what's new since our last full interview, Mandrakesoft co-founder Gaël Duval recently agreed to talk with me about where the company is heading and other interesting IT current events, such as the Linux Core Consortium and Apple's Mac mini. You can read the new interview on OFB.biz."

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Re:cracking on the mac mini... heh by SpottedKuh · 2005-01-31 15:46 · Score: 4, Insightful

Gaël Duval makes the somewhat "interesting" assumption that everyone who buys a desktop computer wants to run Linux on it:

OFB: Is [the Mac Mini] a threat to GNU/Linux on the desktop?
GD: Not really since the Mac Mini is very likely to run Linux.

I think the question OFB was really asking was: Will the inexpensive Mac Mini cause people to choose OS X as a desktop UNIX solution instead of Linux. And while Linux is a fine desktop solution, the simple truth is that if people are willing to spend over $2000 to buy a Powerbook for the sole sake of running OS X, they're probably willing to spend under $500 to have an OS X desktop too.