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Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit Leaves Desktop Linux Behind
Linux.com's Joe Barr has an interesting commentary about the recent Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit and the astounding lack of attention for desktop Linux. Now, a great deal of the monetary support driving Linux these days comes from companies with a vested interest in "big iron" but hopefully this won't completely eclipse the rest of the community. "Before I learned that the press was not welcome in any of the working-meetings at the summit on days 2 and 3, I saw and heard rumblings of discontent from more than one ordinary Linux desktop user. One example: a top-ten list of inhibitors to Linux adoption, created by a committee of foundation members, contained nothing at all relating to desktop usage. Nothing. Everything on the list was about back-room usage. Servers. Big iron."
Linux on the desktop is like Windows in server space. It's just wrong and you know it.
so much for 'open', eh?
It would be nice if the douchebags that come here to flame someone would have the balls to log in and post with their slashdot username. I guess the "anonymous coward" thing fits, eh?
Joe Barr is an idiot. Google mplayer and that moron.