you'll be back one day =)
(to the desktop linux)
Yes, you're very likely right. I have enjoyed reading your opinion on Apple and such -- even if it wasn't really on charter for this list.
Perhaps we can get deeper into this area over beer at a pub night sometime? (Does CLUG have those?)
the innovations that people are working on for the Open Source desktops are mind blowingly cool and useful. we've caught up on the base desktop, are catching up with the applications and are moving ahead in terms of creative technologies.
I'll be keeping an eye on it over the next couple of years. Hopefully competition from these inovators will help push everyone, proprietary and open source, vendors further forward in terms of usability etc.
here's an interesting observation: Apple brought the GUI file manager into the mainsteam in 84. Microsoft de-spatialized it in the 90s, and that's been the single largest interface change to it in the last 20 years. 20 years of file manager interfaces that mimic an original design made for <10MHz CPUs, tiny screens and a few hundred files. crazyness.
The volume of information, in number, sizes, and types of files is just staggering these days. Flinging tv episodes around the lan and the like for starters. Some breakthru in ways of managing this cornucopia of digital multimedia will eventually come. Can't wait :-)
-- Trever Miller Cyberdex Systems Consulting Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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