2002 was probably Linux's swansong on the desktop. Last chance with OS-X maturing and now Vista now ready to roll. What happened in the intervening four years with KDE and Gnome... not much. Ubuntu! Pfft. Who really cares. And it has nothing to do with free. In 2007 I want to be able to setup a printer, connect to all my network shares and install my productivity apps in under 3 weeks and avoid having to recompile my kernel.
"Steve Jobs has said that X-Windows is brain-damaged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right." - Dennis Ritchie
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Has it burst? I don't think it ever inflated!
2002 was probably Linux's swansong on the desktop. Last chance with OS-X maturing and now Vista now ready to roll. What happened in the intervening four years with KDE and Gnome ... not much. Ubuntu! Pfft. Who really cares. And it has nothing to do with free. In 2007 I want to be able to setup a printer, connect to all my network shares and install my productivity apps in under 3 weeks and avoid having to recompile my kernel.
"Steve Jobs has said that X-Windows is brain-damaged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right." - Dennis Ritchie
@HangingChad: Windows is only really dangerous when you surf with it regularly.
Care to qualify that sweeping statement? OR maybe it's your inability to use Windows securely that's the issue?