Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd Jan 2007 10:26 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Linux, the free operating system, has gone from an intriguing experiment to a mainstream technology in corporate data centers, helped by the backing of major technology companies like IBM, Intel, and HP, which sponsored industry consortiums to promote its adoption. Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, with the system's penguin symbol, will assist the Linux Foundation. Those same companies have decided that the time has come to consolidate their collaborative support into a new group, the Linux Foundation, which is being announced today. And the mission of the new organization is help Linux, the leading example of the open-source model of software development, to compete more effectively against Microsoft, the world's largest software company.
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The very thing that makes Linux unique (ie. NOT Windows) is all the different versions and the fact anyone can change anything and call it a new distro. As long as that mentality stays, it will never be a Windows replacement.
I disagree, I don't think this has actually hampered Linux adoption in the least. That doesn't mean there shouldn't be increased standardization, as the LSB and freedesktop.org have done (and will continue to do).
Don't even get me started on package managers...
Package managers are great, and they can work alongside standalone installers/statically-linked installs.
If Package Managers sucked, then why would Microsoft have adopted a form of them for Windows?