I hate to admit it, but using Netscape or IE on a windows system is (in every case I've seen) a lot faster that on Linux (or UNIX in general).
Although it's true that we have a lot of developers, probably more than any commercial company, we still don't have enough. The reason is that many of the Linux developers have a normal job or are studying so they don't have much time to spent on coding.
We also need more 'developers' not writing code, but writing documentation because that's going to be important if Linux wants to go mainstream.
Why should only managers think in this way? Open-source is a thing that has only started becoming a 'big thing' in the last few years.
Many people are afraid of new things, it takes time for them to be accepted. I think that in 5 to ten years open-source will be accepted by almost everyone, even managers. (Note: this doesn't mean it will be used by everyone.)
Some other distributions (Caldera, Corel) are using a graphical installation in their distribution.
For new users who are used to M$ Windows this is much more friendly than the text-based installation of Debian and makes it much more attractive to 'try out Linux'.
Are there any plans to create a graphical installation? It seems to me that this could attract a lot of new users.
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As far as I know all parties (Qt, KDE, Debian) want this to work, so I don't understand why KDE is still out of Debian.
bye,
pieter
I hate to admit it, but using Netscape or IE on a windows system is (in every case I've seen) a lot faster that on Linux (or UNIX in general).
Although it's true that we have a lot of developers, probably more than any commercial company, we still don't have enough. The reason is that many of the Linux developers have a normal job or are studying so they don't have much time to spent on coding.
We also need more 'developers' not writing code, but writing documentation because that's going to be important if Linux wants to go mainstream.
bye,
pieter
Many people are afraid of new things, it takes time for them to be accepted. I think that in 5 to ten years open-source will be accepted by almost everyone, even managers. (Note: this doesn't mean it will be used by everyone.)
bye,
pieter
Some other distributions (Caldera, Corel) are using a graphical installation in their distribution.
For new users who are used to M$ Windows this is much more friendly than the text-based installation of Debian and makes it much more attractive to 'try out Linux'.
Are there any plans to create a graphical installation? It seems to me that this could attract a lot of new users.
bye,
pte