On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote:
> As the one who got into that mammoth "linux on the desktop" fight with atul > chitnis a decade back .. linux is getting there and I am glad to see it. > > It is still not there as much as I would like in some critical business > productivity areas - office suites and such. > That is of course linux on the desktop, its still in a class of its own as > a server OS The last few years have seen one trend - the hardware manufacturers viz. OEMs and the OEMs who also do peripherals taking enough care to see that bits that enable their hardware to work on Linux are pushed in the appropriate places. Having made that grossly generalized statement I'd also admit that there exist regions of problems in cases of, say, PCMCIA cards, USB Modems and so forth. However, the earlier annoyances of printer drivers, scanner drivers etc have been mostly attended to. There are desktop areas like Bluetooth, tethering, synchronization etc which have chinks. However, the actual "desktop" as a metaphor for computing workspace might be up for a revision. The main worry could be whether the diverse number of projects that make up the whole "Linux" thing can catch up or, keep pace. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/>
