A few weeks ago, Gael Duval lifted the veil of secrecy surrounding his new project a little bit by 'leaking' some screenshots and information. Obviously, a lot of questions remained, and hence we contacted Gael Duval in order to ask him some basic questions about Ulteo. Read on for the mini-interview.
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If Ulteo does do something different, then it'll probably be ported or implemented in other Linux distros shortly after anyway.
At the end of the day, it'll be yet another slightly incompatible "yawn", to further confuse people considering using "Linux" and annoy developers who are trying to maintain (already large) auto-configure scripts.
Did I mention I can predict the future? In the year 2020 the number of people using each OS for desktop and server purposes will go something like this:
Windows, 70%
OS X, 20%
Misc BSD, almost none
Solarix, almost none
Ulteo, almost none
Redhat, almost none
Gentoo, almost none
Kubuntu/Ubunto, almost none
Mandriva, almost none
Debain, almost none
Knoppix, almost none
Slackware, almost none
Yellog Dog, almost none
Fedora, almost none
Other (misc. alternative), almost none
Of course I may be wrong - one day these fools might actually start thinking and we might see something like this instead:
Standard Linux, 55%
Windows, 30%
OS X, 10%
Misc BSD, almost none
Solarix, almost none
Other (misc. alternative), almost none
I guess that's one of the "5 freedoms" though - everyone is free to turn it into a fragmented mess.... :-)
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"Kubuntu has also turned into the 'de-facto' standard KDE distribution."
From where do you guys have this information? Your imagination? Please don't post such nonsense if you cannot verify it.
PS: Brendan, it is Solaris, not Solarix. 
Ad I doubt that RedHat will loose its quite significant market share in the server and corporate desktop market anytime soon. They are an established company, even more than Mac that lost quite a lot of its business customers during the last years.
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Is software installation. Based on this interview and others, it sounds like Gael wants to (FINALLY) make a Linux distro with Windows-like installation procedure so that anyone can pick it up and use it without having to understand what makes Linux different. I wouldn't underestimate this man. You must remember that he took plain old Red Hat and made it into a much more consumer-friendly OS, and in fact Mandrake was the very first distro to do so successfully (seeing as Corel ended up leaving the marketplace for quite a few years before Xandros was released based on their code).
Edited 2006-10-12 19:52