On Jul 1, 2004, at 1:03 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Fortunately for us, by choosing to develop with Rev we're uniquely
immune to such things. While OS X may arguably be the "best" Unix
platform, Linux is the fastest-growing desktop platform, with more than a few analysts predicting it will eclipse Mac market share by the end of
this year. But no matter who rises and who falls, deploying to any
major platform is just a click of a checkbox for us. :)
I see that most developers here are deploying basically to Win32 and Mac platforms. Some here feel that linux is to complicated and the like. So while looking for a decent distribution to install here so that I could test my Rev apps on Linux, I came across a very inteligent and elegant linux distribution called Cobind Desktop. They are influenced by a text called "The paradox of choice" and tried to make a clean linux, not overbloated with thousands of softwares, but just what the user needs, there's ONE wordprocessing package (abiWord), there's ONE spredsheet (gnumeric) and the like. So in the end, you've got a very easy and pretty linux. They won't use Gnome or KDE as window manager but XFCe which is very minimalistic and works great!
I am downloading their ISO right now to see if our apps will run out of the box, but it appears nice...
more info at http://www.cobind.org
I really think that solutions like this and like Linspire are the ones that will grow, not SuSe and RedHat which are too geeky for the normal user.
Cheers
-- Andre Alves Garzia 2004 BRAZIL http://studio.soapdog.org
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