Linked by John Munsch on Mon 30th Dec 2002 19:05 UTC
Why do it? I am asked this question more often than I expected, even by existing Linux users who I expected to know as well as I the reasons for building a next-generation desktop Linux for the home user. So here are some of my reasons for thinking that we must spend the effort to create a better desktop on Linux than any existing version now has. Editor's Note: Due to a technical glitch, the first segment of this article was ommitted for some readers. If you missed the "why" section, before, you can read it now.
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"Does that mean that windows XP home and pro are server versions of their product? I believe those are advertiesed as for Home users and those have web and ftp servers included with them. Granted not the safest to use - but definitely easy to setup."
No, however we are talking about the average user. The average user doesn't even know that he or she can serve websites with XP. ;-)
"As for the average joe not using a server function on his desktop like FTP or Apache fine, my views may be off. However, in my experience, there are quite a lot of average joe college students doing exactly that with the random ftp shareware proggie they cracked so they could setup ftp shares for IRC channels."
I agree, however these folks will manage to configure their computers and expect to make changes when need be. Even FTP and WWW are configure once for the most part, unless they are in the development cycle.