+++ Mayuresh Kathe [linux-india] <30/01/02 00:39 +0530>:
> 4. A next generation UI, look at all those Window Managers, they are
> all wannabes of some old UI paradigm.
What, in your opinion, would be a new UI paradigm? A 3-D world? Most of the
desktop environments around (kde and gnome are not just 'window managers')
are going the same old MacOS / Doze route. Because it is what the herd
wants, and is most familiar with.
Window managers? Try twm, fvwm, blackbox, xfce etc. That's all they do.
Help you open and manage multiple windows.
They don't try, or want to be, desktop environments, with the mail client
integrated with the browser, which is integrated with the desktop and ...
And frankly, I am not comfortable with the branding "linux for the desktop".
OK, say "Caldera eDesktop for the desktop", "ELX for the desktop", "Lindows
for the desktop".
Diluting the brand image of _linux_ as a whole (well, it is already diluted
every time someone says "linux 7.2") is stupid. Hell, even M$ knows that,
and has their differentiation, and their marketing mix, beautifully fine
tuned.
Win98/ME, NT, 2K, XP, "Home Office", "Professional Edition" ... sounds like a
lot of fine words, lots of hot air, but at least people don't confuse them
together enough to say "linux 7.1 for the desktop".
Distros are for desktops. Distros are for servers. Distros are for
workstations (somewhere between a desktop and a server).
-srs
ps - Desktop = standard home-use box, for gaming, browsing the 'net, email,
minor word processing etc. Workstation - for more serious work (coding etc).
Servers - well, are servers :)
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