Having a huge force like AOL behind an MP3 company could actually be a good thing as it throws major big bucks MP3. I would love to see RIAA and AOL battle it out. -- Deepak Saxena 1999 - Year of the Penguin
A suggestion to all the high schoolers who are currently undergoing this horrible witch hunt: Contact the ACLU. They may be able to help by providing a legal argument against the school's ghastly policies.
I don't seem to follow your logic. Easy to use does not inherently mean unstable. Linux is already been architected from the ground up to be a robust stable OS. There is no reason why this idea cannot carry over into the design and implementation of a robust user interface.
Yes gaming will help linux penetrate the homeplace. So will GNOME, KDE, and all the great office apps that are coming out. But that's not enough. One of the big issues when dealing with the average consumer running Linux is that of drivers. Until someone can go into a store, pick up the latest piece of hardware, and have an installable linux driver included, home penetration will have problems. You can't expect the average computer user to compile a driver or a kernel. That's like asking your everyday car driver to rebuild his engine!
Unfortunately, for drivers to be available off the shelf will take some time due to some issues. I can think of two at the moment. I'm sure there are more.
Linux needs better installable driver support. The current implementation is a hack. One of the reasons for this goes back to having a monolithic kernel, but I won't go into that due to the flame war that would start:)
No definite documentation source for new kernel hacker's to go by. I've started working on Linux drivers at my job, and while O'reilley's Linux Device Drivers and AW's Linux Kernel Internal's books are useful, they lack a lot. Also, they're already somewhat outdated, and it's very hard for someone to find out what changes are between kernel revisions w/o digging through the actual kernel code. You shouldn't have to do this to write a device driver. It should be clearly documented somewhere.
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Having a huge force like AOL behind an MP3 company could actually be a good thing as it throws major big bucks MP3. I would love to see RIAA and AOL battle it out.
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Deepak Saxena
1999 - Year of the Penguin
A suggestion to all the high schoolers who are currently undergoing this horrible witch hunt: Contact the ACLU. They may be able to help by providing a legal argument against the school's ghastly policies.
I don't seem to follow your logic. Easy to use does not inherently mean unstable. Linux is already been architected from the ground up to be a robust stable OS. There is no reason why this idea cannot carry over into the design and implementation of a robust user interface.
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Capitalist haters fear not. The US economy is going to come to a crawling halt when most of the workforce goes to see Star Wars :O
Unfortunately, for drivers to be available off the shelf will take some time due to some issues. I can think of two at the moment. I'm sure there are more.
Linux needs better installable driver support. The current implementation is a hack. One of the reasons for this goes back to having a monolithic kernel, but I won't go into that due to the flame war that would start :)
No definite documentation source for new kernel hacker's to go by. I've started working on Linux drivers at my job, and while O'reilley's Linux Device Drivers and AW's Linux Kernel Internal's books are useful, they lack a lot. Also, they're already somewhat outdated, and it's very hard for someone to find out what changes are between kernel revisions w/o digging through the actual kernel code. You shouldn't have to do this to write a device driver. It should be clearly documented somewhere.