Brian Butterworth wrote:
The first version of Unix I used was on a PDP11! When I started doing
system admin for Unix I learnt both System V and BSD. I used XWindows
on Sparcstations! So, I have a rather blaze attitude to "new" versions
of something I have known for a more than a few decades. Sorry...
Gah. I always feel young round here.
I can hardly ever join in discussions on vintage computing :(
"more and more" -> you don't think there is *any* relative improvement?
I'm NOT in anyway talking about improvement. What I am saying is that
for "the masses" to move to Linux, they need NO barriers at all. This
is not about creating a better UI, it is about having a UI that you
don't need to learn because it leverages the user's Windows "skills".
Only once you have got your users can you think of improving them.
I'll assume that's just hyperbole.
No, I trying to point out that Linux desktop acceptance needs present
not a single hurdle to acceptance.
I've seen it myself many times.
You plonk the MD of the company, who used computers years ago, down in
front of a non-windows machine. He click a few things, can't make it
work straight away and decided "it's rubbish, stick with Windows".
If you in sales or marketing, then you're going to stick a Machead down
and get them to use the Linux box. Again, it doesn't appear enough like
a Mac, so they go to their backup Windows skills and still nothing.
The wide-scale acceptance of a Linux operation system will depend on the
people who make the decisions about purchase. This is, surely,
self-evident.
As a parallel, remember the iPlayer wasn't going to have a Mac version.
And then Flash saved the day.
How would all those Mac people in the media have reacted to a Mac-less
iPlayer. The same way they did to 4OD. "it doesn't work".
I agree with your points, but dispute that it's not nearly there.
I dislike this article for several reasons but
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/06/linux_ubuntu_blog.html
if the catalyst has to be the publicity from claiming the UK has 400
linux users, so be it! ;)
Now there are certainly issues encountered there, but he still makes
some good points.
How about a BBC Micro 2012 Edition...? FM&T need another impossible
tech project. Be more exciting than "Bang Goes The Theory".
If exciting means "more likely to cause flame wars on backstage than
iplayer" then "yes". :P
The world does not need new gnu/linux distros IMHO.
Tim :)
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