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Samba's Jeremy Allison On Linux's Future

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the he-should-know dept.

TRNick writes "Jeremy Allison talks Ubuntu, why he loves Gnome, and the trials and tribulations of open source development in a wide-ranging interview on TechRadar."

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  1. Re:Ubuntu and the new users by WiglyWorm · · Score: 1, Redundant

    And now, even being an average computer user, she is trying to spread Linux to her friends and colleagues

    Which will be fantastic, until they have to set up the ndiswrapper themselves.

    I am an advanced computer user (I work in IT), and ndiswrapper caused ME to give up on Linux. I'll try it again when I have a card that plays nice, but I still think that what Linux needs is a friendlier interface than even Ubuntu can offer. Why should I have to type "apt-get"? Why don't the linux coders make a rich graphical "application marketplace" or, hell, an iTunes-esque GUI?

    The easier you can make things, the more it will catch on. Ubuntu is definately not ready for the big time yet. It's close, but it needs a lot of polish.

  2. Re:Samba is considered harmful by Culture20 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Say NO to Microsoft compatability.

    Say no to wide-spread Linux usage!

    I don't think parent is meant as Flamebait. It's the eventual result of Microsoft incompatibility (at least it would be in most IT shops). If you remove MS Office compatibility from OpenOffice, and Samba from Linux, unless you're in a university or some other place that does number crunching, the only use for Linux would be as a webserver. With rdesktop, Samba, et al, I'm able to gradually nudge my users into a *nix world by using only Linux on my laptop (which I take to meetings just to show off compiz).