Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Apr 2006 14:37 UTC, submitted by historyb
More than a dozen technology companies, including IBM, Red Hat, and Novell are planning to support a new integrated server and desktop Linux standard unveiled at next week's Linux Desktop Summit by the Free Standards Group. The FSG is a nonprofit organization that has worked for years on a number of open standards including a server specification called the Linux Standard Base.
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RE[2]: Picking a Desktop
by segedunum on Fri 21st Apr 2006 16:08
in reply to "RE: Picking a Desktop"
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LSB choosed a desktop at the begining but after some KDE troll power they decided to include KDE as well and now they are facing the concecuences, just like I predicted.
Choosing a desktop (or more precisely, a toolkit) based on what criteria? Does that criteria actually matter a damn to enterprises and users in general out there? That's aside from any LSB politics or trolling from either side.
That's my point.
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but it will be hard work to create a standard that is compatible with both KDE and Gnome, said Bruce Perens...In the end, the Linux providers may be forced to simply choose one desktop, he said.
Considering that UserLinux was supposed to provide something approaching a finished out-of-the-box distribution to do this I don't know why they're talking to Perens. UserLinux failed utterly, and it didn't even approach many problems such as providing graphical front-ends to many of the functions within it.
Many distributions may well have to pick one desktop to focus on, but the criteria that needs to be used certainly isn't that which Perens used.