Hey fellow Gentoo-ers. > -----Original Message----- > From: Norman Rieß [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 December 2006 06:01 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Has Linux "jumped the Shark"? > > > Jeff Rollin schrieb: > > Their argument seemed to be that > > because GNOME is running into problems and because KDE is behind > > schedule, the Linux desktop is dead. > > > > How true is this? > > > > Jeff > Like "uh, we cannot finish this tiny feature here in 3 days > as planned, > so let us give up the whole project"? :-) > > And Linux is more popular than ever and gaining users > (correct me if i > am wrong). Developement on Gnome and KDE is going on.. > So i do not see how they could be dead. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >
As long as someone uses Linux, and contributes code to it, it's alive IMO. In fact I would say that every month it becomes more and more useful and I only see Linux being behind on some gaming support and some other application specific support (eg the business I work for uses many applications that only run on windows, and I am not aware of linux equivelants). Linux is more than sufficient for the average home user who goes on the internet to sell their junk on ebay, writes emails to relatives far away and watches a couple of films and listens to a few music tracks. I would say it was far from dead. Even if the Linux kernel itself were to die the same set of apps (or at least a large percentage of them) that we use on our Linux boxes will work happily on BSD with some tweaking, surely :) David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
