The Win9x's will never completely go away because of the length and the breadth of developers creating apps for those OS's.
The PC literate, knowledgable person can, on a lazy weekend evening, jump to http://www.download.com and find THOUSANDS of different apps and games and minutae to toy and tinker around with. This does not exist in the Linux camp.
Before you go "FLAME ON"---listen carefully at what I said. Everything you can do witn Win9x you can do most certainly under Linux. NO DOUBT. But theres soooooooooooooooooo many more apps for the Win9x's and thats what will keep them afloat. Compatability for the newest games (rainbow six anyone? Flight simulator? Madden 99? just an example), for the little diddies people put togather (a neat South Park snowball game being passed around the company email last week) and the like.
Until people can say "I just got this neat little program----" and a linuxer can ask confidently where or ask for a copy-----win9x will live. Many of you may not need it----but those who don't yet Linux WILL WANT IT.
Thus---the WINE project is AS important, if not more so, than the easy use Linux distro. But me-thinks theres no market for an easy use distro anyway. if you know about Linux enough to want to try it----you're obviously smart enough to dig through some books and get through an installation process.
Thats the problem nit-wit. IS today doesn't want to have to hire 'geeks' or anyone 'special' to run their shop-----------they want to be able to do it with the staff they have.
Windows can do this---Linux has a ways to go yet. Face it, my extremist friend----Linux *does* have weasknesses.
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strange...there are diskettes in my new copy of Open Linux 2.2
$3.00, 6 tacos and free beer
put the time and energy into it that they put into LINUX.
It would also have the marketing might of MS behind it
Ease of entry into consumer space---which would make computing better for EVERYONE.
And better support from the third party vendors
Alas...Bill would have to open the code to us if that were to happen.
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Is that a problem? If Linux crushes Microsoft as Linus suggested today SOMEONE will have the majority of the market. There will never be an even split
Or can anything easy to use be powerful?
doesn't seem so in software...
and whats he doing for VA?
;)
VA---the Compaq of Linux
Redhat---The Microsoft of Linux
now all we need is a chip parallel...
The Win9x's will never completely go away because of the length and the breadth of developers creating apps for those OS's.
The PC literate, knowledgable person can, on a lazy weekend evening, jump to http://www.download.com and find THOUSANDS of different apps and games and minutae to toy and tinker around with. This does not exist in the Linux camp.
Before you go "FLAME ON"---listen carefully at what I said. Everything you can do witn Win9x you can do most certainly under Linux. NO DOUBT. But theres soooooooooooooooooo many more apps for the Win9x's and thats what will keep them afloat. Compatability for the newest games (rainbow six anyone? Flight simulator? Madden 99? just an example), for the little diddies people put togather (a neat South Park snowball game being passed around the company email last week) and the like.
Until people can say "I just got this neat little program----" and a linuxer can ask confidently where or ask for a copy-----win9x will live. Many of you may not need it----but those who don't yet Linux WILL WANT IT.
Thus---the WINE project is AS important, if not more so, than the easy use Linux distro. But me-thinks theres no market for an easy use distro anyway. if you know about Linux enough to want to try it----you're obviously smart enough to dig through some books and get through an installation process.
Thats the problem nit-wit. IS today doesn't want to have to hire 'geeks' or anyone 'special' to run their shop-----------they want to be able to do it with the staff they have.
Windows can do this---Linux has a ways to go yet. Face it, my extremist friend----Linux *does* have weasknesses.
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