Hi Glenn!
27 Jan 2002, "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
GM> The "average joe on the street" does not
GM> (and most likely never will), use Linux.
Hmmm ... I'm not so sure.
There are many versions which are very easy to use.
And for example in office use the difference between Win2000 + M$ Office
and Linux + X + KDE/Gnome + Star/Openoffice is not really big.
GM> IMHO, Linux never was intended to be and never will be "ready for
GM> prime time".
It was intended as a small toy of a finnish student, to teach himself a bit
about the new protected mode of the brand new Intel 80386.
(2 processes + a scheduler ... process 1 printed 'a's and p. 2 printed
'b's)
Linux has evolved ...
the kernel gurus don't care about the usability of linux ... but they don't
have to. Their job is to produce a stable higy performance kernel which can
scale to many scenarios. (eg basic linux user on ancient hardware vs.
rendering highperformance cluster for pixar rendering images for movies)
Linus does a good job at maintaining the kernel.
And if there is enough demand, there will be companies, which produce Linux
distributions which are as easy to use as windows.
Linux is very flexible ... it is used in mini computers which look like
little watches and with slight modifications as a realtime OS.
GM> Glenn
CU, Ricsi
PS: discussion about Linux, *BSD or other Unices is not as important as
many think. The difference is not big between them ...
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