A few weeks ago, Gael Duval lifted the veil of secrecy surrounding his new project a little bit by 'leaking' some screenshots and information. Obviously, a lot of questions remained, and hence we contacted Gael Duval in order to ask him some basic questions about Ulteo. Read on for the mini-interview.
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Member since:2005-11-16
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.... :-)
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2005-06-29
He had an opportunity to convince us and to tell us what makes Ulteo different. He didn't.