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Could Apple's Intel Desktop Threaten Linux?
esavard writes "
If Linux enthusiasts don't want
Mac OSX on Intel to become a threat
for the future of Linux Desktop, they must rethink the concept of Desktop as we know it today.
Symphony OS did exactly that and propose some fresh concepts about how a desktop should and should not be.
If you want to know more about Symphony OS, a good starting point is a Wikipedia article
describing the innovations proposed by this new desktop OS. The Linux Desktop Community must encourage such initatives
massively to compete against Mac OSX and Windows."
For many of us, Linux will likely never be able to compete against OS X for one simple reason:
Most anything worthwhile that you can do in Linux, you can also do in OS X, and often much more easily. The reverse isn't *close* to being true.
OS X is what Linux dreams of one day being. Why not use what Linux *may* have in 10 years, today?
The part where he says he's going to make OS/X free as in "free beer" because his cold little heart bleeds when he reads that BSD is dying.
People put way too much importance on visibility. I don't know if Linux was ever destined to count itself among the most visible of all platforms. Linux doesn't need that kind of one-on-one attention to fill important niches. I'd be quite happy to see a three way tie take shape: MS for the corporate drones, OS/X for the insecure, and Linux/BSD for those of us who merely want to get from point A to point B without the hype and fanfare.
It takes a certain amount of insecurity to wonder about this prospect in the first place.
Debian's method of package management is quite excellent. All you've demonstrated is that apt-get might not be the right tool for a obstinate cluebie. All that proves is perhaps you don't have the chops to deal with a CLI and minor roadbumps and should instead use the available shiny-happy-gui tool instead.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Interesting. Perhaps someday OS X will catch up with Synaptic (based on apt) package manager for Linux, where all you have to do is click a checkbox for the program you want, and click "Apply".
And maybe someday Synaptic's database will be up-to-date and complete.
-mkb
I can't think of the last thing that wasn't in Debian that I wanted to install. Sorry, try again.
You haven't tried to get Java running on Ubuntu, have you?
-mkb