The discussion talks about who to make Linux take a more greater piece of the desktop market pie. I you don't worry about that, good for you.
VESA sucks, it don't support 3D Features.
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If we wan't to make Linux popular in the desktop. Is very good first to make a study what people like. I all software design, the requisites are primary.
First of all. I'm from Chile, and my English may be a little poor. So sorry if my English sucks.
Yes. They need a very good support for all IM protocols including all features. I agree with you about GAIM. I'm a MSN Messenger user, because I'm from Chile and it's popular here. AMSN sucks, it's very three times slow than MSN Messenger from Windows, they emoticons sucks, it's webcam support is very poor.
I think that Linux need a very good HAL. And if it's possible a HAL that support windows drivers, this way I don't worry about I'm in Windows or Linux. Much people may think 'but this is imitating windows', but Microsoft imitated Apple and Apple imitated Xerox. The good ideas deserves to be copied. The GUI models from Windows and MacOSX and the associated software are a very good base to start.
About standards, yes that's a good idea, this way we can atract hardware developers supplying an API much easier for use that will make great operational costs savings. It's the same from the desktop, a very good standard for applications saves time in strategic decisions. A manager when decides to make a software for Linux, he lose time thinking about what graphical API to choice, GTK or QT?, that involucrates a cost of investigation for helping the manager to choose. Microsoft has only one API, one desktop, one IDE, one suite. Hardware vendors choice Microsoft because for them it's a fact standard.
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The discussion talks about who to make Linux take a more greater piece of the desktop market pie. I you don't worry about that, good for you.
VESA sucks, it don't support 3D Features.
You're comment doesn't offer an answer.
If we wan't to make Linux popular in the desktop. Is very good first to make a study what people like. I all software design, the requisites are primary.
First of all. I'm from Chile, and my English may be a little poor. So sorry if my English sucks. Yes. They need a very good support for all IM protocols including all features. I agree with you about GAIM. I'm a MSN Messenger user, because I'm from Chile and it's popular here. AMSN sucks, it's very three times slow than MSN Messenger from Windows, they emoticons sucks, it's webcam support is very poor. I think that Linux need a very good HAL. And if it's possible a HAL that support windows drivers, this way I don't worry about I'm in Windows or Linux. Much people may think 'but this is imitating windows', but Microsoft imitated Apple and Apple imitated Xerox. The good ideas deserves to be copied. The GUI models from Windows and MacOSX and the associated software are a very good base to start. About standards, yes that's a good idea, this way we can atract hardware developers supplying an API much easier for use that will make great operational costs savings. It's the same from the desktop, a very good standard for applications saves time in strategic decisions. A manager when decides to make a software for Linux, he lose time thinking about what graphical API to choice, GTK or QT?, that involucrates a cost of investigation for helping the manager to choose. Microsoft has only one API, one desktop, one IDE, one suite. Hardware vendors choice Microsoft because for them it's a fact standard.