When I first started playing with Linux (RedHat Distribution -- Version 5.2 Deluxe), it was a present from a father's friend in Boston. As I recall that is the only version of RedHat I ever got to work correctly without any major problems (like "Kernel Segmentation Error" or something to that effect).
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It'll be there when linux standardizes on ONE of each after in the default installation. One of each what? One desktop, one font server, one shell, one kernel, one set of libraries, etc etc etc etc. If one distribution of linux isnt binary compatible with another, it'll never be there. Don't tell the average joe to compile a program so they could run it. Being there means the average joe just runs things and it works. No other knowledge on their end should be required in order to get something to work. And thats the problem of why linux will never be there.
It'll be there when linux standardizes on ONE of each after in the default installation. One of each what? One desktop, one font server, one shell, one kernel, one set of libraries, etc etc etc etc. If one distribution of linux isnt binary compatible with another, it'll never be there. Don't tell the average joe to compile a program so they could run it. Being there means the average joe just runs things and it works. No other knowledge on their end should be required in order to get something to work. And thats the problem of why linux will never be there.