Star Opinion: Linux In 2004 - Usability Needs A Facelift
Linked by Jeremy LaCroix on Thu 3rd Jun 2004 07:02 UTC
Linux During the majority of my time working with computers, Windows was the operating system of choice. Reason being, it's all I've known. In 2002, I took a college course titled "Linux Administration" which entitled me to a few cd-roms of Redhat 7.x. While this course was nothing more than a few extra credits for me, I fell in love with Linux and went through the entire textbook a week into the class. It was a nice feeling to use something "different" than what I was used to.
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During the next few years when linux starts making big strides in the desktop market, we'll proably see a dominant distro emerge. Heck I can knock off about 95% of the linux distros out there, since their either not for newbies(pure debian, gentoo, slack,etc), dont have enough finacial backing/(market/mind)share(Ares, Cobrind,etc), or are speciality distros that arent used for desktops.

So were basically seeing a polarization between the newbie distros(with proably about 95%+ linux marketshare) and the people who will stick with their community supported distros.

IMO...

Big Corps ignore community distros -> standardize on newbie distros -> those distro producers collberate on inter-standards -> community distros adopt those inter-standards -> everyones happpy.