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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Only one thing left to be said: I fully agree with this comment here.
Yeah, and then did you read his second paragraph?
What will make Linux ready is switching to some other kernel and building a complete system and not just a kernel. Yes some would say distros, but that's not solving anything. Linux has to become an operating system, not just a kernel, which is why all these articles are bogus to begin with.
Only one thing left to be said: I fully agree with this comment here.
Yeah, and then did you read his second paragraph?
What will make Linux ready is switching to some other kernel and building a complete system and not just a kernel. Yes some would say distros, but that's not solving anything. Linux has to become an operating system, not just a kernel, which is why all these articles are bogus to begin with.