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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You're lucky that there aren't 3 or 4 incompatible linux-like kernels.
Erm... What do you call the Solaris kernel? the FreeBSD kernel? the Hurd? the AIX kernel? Darwin? But I suppose you're right. There's substantially more than '3 or 4' of them...