Star Bettering the Linux Desktop - Portland Progress
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 10th May 2006 17:25 UTC, submitted by elsewhere
Linux Six months ago, architects from two dozen desktop-oriented Linux projects gathered in Portland to work together on creating the best possible Linux desktop. Thus was born the Portland Project. Now, in Mainz, Germany, the expanded group is meeting again on May 8 and 9 to see how far it's come and to look at what's ahead.
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Too little ,too late
by Eric Martin on Thu 11th May 2006 01:37 UTC
Eric Martin
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2005-11-11

This should have been done years ago when Windows was having problems. Xp has been nice. Still some security issues but there are workarounds with firewalls.

Too late.

Edited 2006-05-11 01:37

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RE: Too little ,too late
by slate on Thu 11th May 2006 06:38 in reply to "Too little ,too late"
slate Member since:
2006-04-04

This should have been done years ago when Windows was having problems. Xp has been nice. Still some security issues but there are workarounds with firewalls.

Too late.

Pretty much so. Influential people in the open source desktop world could have made some tough decisions about 5 or 6 years ago when the time was right. Timing is pretty crucial. This stuff is just a band-aid for something that needs major surgery.

Interestingly, OSX is really the big competition right now for Linux and not Windows. It's amazing how many developers I meet that have switched from Linux to OSX.

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RE[2]: Too little ,too late
by fithisux on Thu 11th May 2006 13:48 in reply to "RE: Too little ,too late"
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2006-01-22

You mean commercial developers. These were never Linux friendly. I wanted to switch to MacOSX until I found out PCBSD. Now I am a more fanatic OSS proponent and I keep programming on Linux and FreeBSD. You want macOSX? Try Gnustep. AMAZING !!!

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RE: Too little ,too late
by SomeBugs on Thu 11th May 2006 13:28 in reply to "Too little ,too late"
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2006-04-28

I'd not say "too late" but "a bit" late.
Anyway it's a step forward, if not to take over the world, at least to improve Linux/BSD user experience.

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