Linked by Sean Oliviero on Wed 28th Jul 2004 05:54 UTC
The promise of Desktop Linux (DL) has been long coming. It's made significant progress since the mid-90s when GNOME and KDE came out, giving Linux users a somewhat modern desktop to work upon. However, it's been 7 years and DL hasn't progressed much at all since then. Today, DL is still nothing more than a UNIX-clone with a task bar, a start menu, and a desktop with some icons on it. But why has DL evolved at such a glacial pace?
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No one person or group has enough control to make changes that impact several other projects.
There are simply to many involved parties and individuals for one person to say "everybody, please change this"
Linux is very layered, and changes can be made to one layer so long is it does not effect compatibility with other layers. This greatly limits what can be done to the system.
That, and even if such changes could be made, there would be another guy that wants to do it a different way, so instead of doing it, they just argue about who is right.
For as long as Linux is an open community project, it will mostly not change.