Linked by Mystilleef on Mon 29th Sep 2003 06:30 UTC
Linux Linux will become ubiquitous in the year 3000. Okay, that was a horrible joke. Linux is just a kernel, the engine that runs an operating system. By itself, it is essentially useless. Kernels shouldn't be discussed or noticed by normal users. And as such when providing these users with reviews, previews and "professional" opinions, computer consultants, computer reviewers and computer journalists should not spew headlines like "Linux is not ready for prime time", "Linux on the desktop by XXX", "Linux to takeover Windows", "Linux is not ready for desktop" and so on.
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All I know is..
by Anonymous on Mon 29th Sep 2003 01:12 UTC

People who I never would have expected to be interested or even aware of Linux keep coming to me and asking me to install it on their machines.

So say what you like about linux being ready/not ready for the desktop. Whatever its status, it is gaining users and/or mindshare at a frightening (for commercial OS vendors) rate.