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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."

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  1. Lack of Desktop Focus?! by BacOs · · Score: 4, Informative

    I was at the Collaboration Summit and am surprised by the comment of "Lack of attention to desktop Linux." According to the agenda, there was a Desktop Panel on day 1, and all day Desktop Workgroup meetings on days 2 and 3. That doesn't seem like a lack of attention to desktop Linux to me. I attended the Desktop Panel and part of the Desktop Workgroup meeting and they seemed like attention to desktop Linux rather than a lack thereof.

  2. This story is factually incorrect by br1an.warner · · Score: 5, Informative
    While I respect Joe, he unfortunately missed the fact that on the other two days that he _wasn't_ at the conference, there were all-day desktop Linux meetings.


    The focus was split pretty evenly between the desktop and the server - although journalists were only invited to the first day and that session was, admittedly, weighted towards the server. However, the two all-day desktop meetings and many of the other sessions (Printing in Linux, virtualization, energy efficiency) involved significant Desktop content. I'm not sure that his claim can be substantiated.


    From the conference agenda:

    Wednesday, 9-5: Desktop Linux Architects Meeting

    • State of the Linux Desktop - Linux Distros
    • OEM vendor round table: what they need to have a successful Linux desktop
    • Building a Desktop Environment Ecosystem - Gnome / KDE
    • Linux Desktop Implementation Case Studies
    Thursday, 9-4:30: Desktop Linux Architects Meeting
    • Virtualization on the Desktop
    • State of X
    • OpenPrinting Joint Session
    • Creating Portable Linux Applications, Joint Session with the LSB Workgroup
    • Desktop kernel requirements
    • Desktop project Lightening Talks
  3. Re:Not Likely by Builder · · Score: 3, Informative

    They lack a wide selection of applications? Care to justify that?

    I can run almost anything that I can on Linux on OS X, but there is a lot from OS X that I _can't_ run on Linux.