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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So maybe there needs to be an Uber standard distro? Free I might add(not linspire). One where all companies can develop for. Game developers, application developers? This way devs don't have to worry about starting services with crazy paths. Placing libs in strange places. Slackware/Debian/Gentoo/Mandrake/Redhat/SuSE/etc.. "Linux is about choice". Well your "choice" is your downfall. Maybe i'll create my own linux distro next week. And make the paths even stranger. And create a new package system. A new installer format. YAY! It's all about choice. Your "choice" is why linux is a PITA to port apps to. It sucks saying "yes it will work on redhat and suse but not Debian or Gentoo sorry.. not without modification". Thats why Linux will never be a real contender in the desktop market. Plain and simple. Now go cry about MS being "an evil monopoly". You praise these fly-by-night distros and put linux on such a high pedastool. When that is whats killing you. Theres all this talk about "what if linux fragments". Umm it has. It has shattered into a million different distros. And that is why commercial entities don't make applications on linux(i guess im gonna hear "well IBM loves us, Novell backs us"..blah blah blah w/e a handful of companies with deep pockets. Linux is R&D to those guys right now. Nothing more or less. Get your head out of your asses.). Your "choice" will be the death of you.