Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 20th Aug 2006 03:08 UTC
"If we want open source software to take off on the desktop, we need to reduce the amount of choice and concentrate our efforts into a single app for each purpose. Choice is one of the drawcards of open source software, but if it is ever to receive adoption at any recognisable level on the desktop, there needs to be less of it. More is less and less is more." More here.
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RE[2]: I think I have to agree unfortunately
by segedunum on Sun 20th Aug 2006 12:22
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First off, I don't like KDE and I really wouldn't like anyone telling me that "we'll stop making Gnome and concentrate our efforts on KDE".
This could never happen. I think what the author of the article is really talking about is one desktop, and possibly one distribution, concentrating on the things that really matter and moving ahead to accelerate wider desktop Linux usage and that would be what most people would concentrate on. It would never stop other people doing theit thing though.
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2006-01-24
First off, I don't like KDE and I really wouldn't like anyone telling me that "we'll stop making Gnome and concentrate our efforts on KDE".
And when it comes to package-managers, I don't like yum but I use it anyway because that's what one of the distros i use comes with - it works, but I'd prefer something faster. Pacman is nice, but of course it doesn't handle RPM. Arch is simple, fedora/redhat is more complex - again, different needs...
About HW-recognition. Not sure if you're thinking about the kernel, hal, hotplug or whatever, anyways it's pretty much the same on all distros..
And, btw - I really like the fact that if I don't find an application satisfactory there most likely is anotherone out there for me
Edited 2006-08-20 07:51