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The True Challenges of Desktop Linux

Posted by timothy on from the editing-video-would-be-nice dept.

olau writes "Hot on the heels on the opinion piece on how Mac OS X killed Linux on the desktop is a more levelheaded analysis by another GNOME old-timer Christian Schaller who doesn't think Mac OS X killed anything. In fact, in spite of the hype surrounding Mac OS X, it seems to barely have made a dent in the overall market, he argues. Instead he points to a much longer list of thorny issues that Linux historically has faced as a contender to Microsoft's double-monopoly on the OS and the Office suite."

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  1. Re:mac is linux by LodCrappo · · Score: 5, Informative

    If it's "all about the kernel", then why would you include OS X (which does not use a linux kernel) with the things we call "Linux", which do?
    here's a thought: educate yourself on a topic before speaking about it.

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  2. Um....no. by mschaffer · · Score: 5, Informative

    Linux is not BSD. BSD is not Linux.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

  3. Re:mac is linux by gweihir · · Score: 5, Informative

    OSX is not Linux. It is a UNIX (i.e. BSD-derived in this case), while Linux is UNIX-like, i.e. a clean (sort of) room re-implementation.

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