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Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit Leaves Desktop Linux Behind

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the time-to-push-back-on-corporatization dept.

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."

7 of 212 comments (clear)

  1. Uh Oh by ColdWetDog · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess 2008 won't be the year of Linux on the desktop?

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    Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
    1. Re:Uh Oh by proudfoot · · Score: 5, Funny

      I hear it's been rescheduled for 2009 now.

    2. Re:Uh Oh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      When you sit there and drink coffee, instead of feeding it to those stay at home moms in a giant orgy of sin, then I say that you're too addicted to coffee.

    3. Re:Uh Oh by dave420 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm sure the fact that one of them is married to a slashdot user had nothing to do with it... :)

  2. well... by abolitiontheory · · Score: 0, Funny

    no one wants to play with small iron.

  3. Re:Lack of Desktop Focus?! by initdeep · · Score: 3, Funny

    Stop trying to make the writer look like an idiot.
    That's his job to do to others.

    Haven't you understood that "Journalism" isn't abou the facts.
    It's about what the "Journalist" wants it to be instead.

    Sheesh.

  4. Re:Stay away annoying journalists. by BigGerman · · Score: 2, Funny

    really? When was last time that something "that will work, get implemented and be commercially feasible" came out of some meeting?