http://www.osnews.com/story/16138/Interview_Gael_Duval Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:57:10 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?170765 http://osnews.com/thread?170765 (gone)Edited 2006-10-11 15:36 Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (daniel_iversen) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?170766 http://osnews.com/thread?170766 He really didn't say much about what sets Ulteo apart from Kubuntu other than the fact that it will apparently have non-KDE software included. Hopefully there will be some more information what will differentiate it (if anything) in the near future. Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Flatline) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?170771 http://osnews.com/thread?170771 Though I'll stay with Kubuntu for now. Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Punktyras) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?170774 http://osnews.com/thread?170774 I don't see the point. This looks a lot like a thin client based distro, one more. Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (!dev!null) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?170782 http://osnews.com/thread?170782 Actually, Gael came out and said that this is *not* going to be a thin-client distribution. It will be much closer to Ubuntu, Mandriva, etc. Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Flatline) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?170831 http://osnews.com/thread?170831 If a product is discussed that presumably not everyone knows about, could a simple description of say, a line long, be included in the summary?

Saves having to click to another story from where we have to click to yet another page. Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ronald Vos) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?170880 http://osnews.com/thread?170880 Saves having to click to another story from where we have to click to yet another page.

But then you will miss seeing all the ads... Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TownDrunk) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?170972 http://osnews.com/thread?170972 He had an opportunity to convince us and to tell us what makes Ulteo different. He didn't. Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Joe User) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?171049 http://osnews.com/thread?171049 If Ulteo does do something different, then it'll probably be ported or implemented in other Linux distros shortly after anyway.

At the end of the day, it'll be yet another slightly incompatible "yawn", to further confuse people considering using "Linux" and annoy developers who are trying to maintain (already large) auto-configure scripts.

Did I mention I can predict the future? In the year 2020 the number of people using each OS for desktop and server purposes will go something like this:

Windows, 70%
OS X, 20%
Misc BSD, almost none
Solarix, almost none
Ulteo, almost none
Redhat, almost none
Gentoo, almost none
Kubuntu/Ubunto, almost none
Mandriva, almost none
Debain, almost none
Knoppix, almost none
Slackware, almost none
Yellog Dog, almost none
Fedora, almost none
Other (misc. alternative), almost none

Of course I may be wrong - one day these fools might actually start thinking and we might see something like this instead:

Standard Linux, 55%
Windows, 30%
OS X, 10%
Misc BSD, almost none
Solarix, almost none
Other (misc. alternative), almost none

I guess that's one of the "5 freedoms" though - everyone is free to turn it into a fragmented mess.... :-) Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Brendan) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?171187 http://osnews.com/thread?171187 How do you propose this "Standard Linux" come about? Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (alucinor) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?171188 http://osnews.com/thread?171188 I should mention that by 2020, the number of users on Indian and Chinese Linux-based OSes will probably outnumber those who can afford OSX or whatever OS Apple is releasing (if any, since it is a business, not a science/tool) at that time. Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (alucinor) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?171198 http://osnews.com/thread?171198 "Kubuntu has also turned into the 'de-facto' standard KDE distribution."

From where do you guys have this information? Your imagination? Please don't post such nonsense if you cannot verify it.

PS: Brendan, it is Solaris, not Solarix. Ad I doubt that RedHat will loose its quite significant market share in the server and corporate desktop market anytime soon. They are an established company, even more than Mac that lost quite a lot of its business customers during the last years. Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (arctic) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?171202 http://osnews.com/thread?171202 Is software installation. Based on this interview and others, it sounds like Gael wants to (FINALLY) make a Linux distro with Windows-like installation procedure so that anyone can pick it up and use it without having to understand what makes Linux different. I wouldn't underestimate this man. You must remember that he took plain old Red Hat and made it into a much more consumer-friendly OS, and in fact Mandrake was the very first distro to do so successfully (seeing as Corel ended up leaving the marketplace for quite a few years before Xandros was released based on their code).Edited 2006-10-12 19:52 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Moochman) Comments