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Desktop Linux Summit Highlights
mo writes "The Desktop Linux Summit has just concluded in San Diego. There were a number of exhibitors, including Novell, AMD, and Mozilla. I've put together a summary of some of the more interesting announcements and booths at the conference. Highlights include a Linux-only 3D game, DRM-free music services, and a new Asterisk GUI."
That page is basically a Lindows advertisement in case you hadn't noticed. Not like OpenOffice information is particularly interesting. OpenOffice sucks pretty badly, and in the long run has little place on the Linux desktop. Its level of integration is too poor and its resource usage is absurd.
P.S. Using a shorthand term (like RegiCon) and then explaining its meaning (Regional Conference) in the same piece of text is retarded. It's retarded when reporters do it, and it's retarded when you do it. Use the short form, or the long form, but not both. It makes the short form wholly superfluous.
Linux will never be ready for the desktop, quite simply because the people who use it view themselves as 'above' everyone else.
Linux users like complex, archaic procedures to accomplish even the most menial of tasks. Somehow, being able to type an intricate string of meaningless characters and get an equally confusing output makes them feel good about themselves.
Just take a look around slashdot. Notice how all the users refer to themseleves as 'us', and everyone else as 'them'. Notice how Linux users always 'talk down' to/about the 'average' user.