Linked by Jeremy LaCroix on Wed 13th Apr 2005 06:51 UTC
I've only been using GNU/Linux since 2001, so I won't say that I'm by any means an expert yet, as most of those that are reading this, probably have been using Linux much longer than I have. However, I still have high hopes for the Linux scene. The purpose of this article is to voice my personal opinion on what I feel is keeping GNU/Linux from taking over the mainstream operating system market. My intentions aren't to "badtalk" the open source kernel+apps, but rather give constructive criticsm on what I personally feel it could be done better.
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i always wondered why there couldn't be a simple gui interface to do ./configure && make && make install on a tar.gz. almost all linux software is packaged like this, and the routine works on any distro and platform.
maybe there could be some kind of halfway step so that the whole compilation did not have to be done, but it would still work for x86 ppc sparc etc.
the autopackage stuff is interesting. good interview about it at http://www.lugradio.org .
although i think could be dangerous for end users to try and install a new x server or something low level. unless they know how to fix it from the command line.
it could work if applications cames as autopackages and the system came through the distro. but if they step on each others toes it could get messy.