Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 11th Oct 2006 14:53 UTC
Original OSNews Interviews 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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RE: Well
by Brendan on Thu 12th Oct 2006 07:31 UTC in reply to "Well"
Brendan
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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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RE[2]: Well
by alucinor on Thu 12th Oct 2006 19:09 in reply to "RE: Well"
alucinor Member since:
2006-01-06

How do you propose this "Standard Linux" come about?

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RE[2]: Well
by alucinor on Thu 12th Oct 2006 19:14 in reply to "RE: Well"
alucinor Member since:
2006-01-06

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.

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