Star Jealousy? Novell, Red Hat, and the Linux Desktop
Linked by David Adams on Fri 18th Apr 2008 16:26 UTC, submitted by sjvn
Linux "Recently, both Novell and Red Hat went on record as dismissing the idea that the consumer Linux desktop is going to be taking off anytime soon. It's not? Has anyone told Asus and Xandros? Everex and gOS? How about Dell and Ubuntu? They're all doing great with consumer Linux desktops." The enterprise Linux leaders are not the ones making strides on the desktop. Does that mean that the Linux desktop has no future, or just that they've let their business focus let them drop the ball on that segment of the market?
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superman
Member since:
2006-08-01

> That someone (right now) seems to be Canonical, and they've done wonders for the community by polishing the Linux desktop for the home users.

Thanks Ubuntu for :
- AIGLX
- NetworkManager
- Xrandr
- pulseaudio
- etc

Ooops. Ubuntu only do upstart.

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SlackerJack Member since:
2005-11-12

Doing alot of the development dont make your distro a better one, it's how you implement it that counts.

Fedora/SUSE does alot of development in Linux tech but their distro is nowhere near as popular as Ubuntu, it's their job to wonder why that is.

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superman Member since:
2006-08-01

Drop from Ubuntu all the good work done by Red Hat and Novell. Have a nice day with this really Ubuntu-only distro.

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Bitterman Member since:
2005-07-06

Doing alot of the development dont make your distro a better one, it's how you implement it that counts.

Fedora/SUSE does alot of development in Linux tech but their distro is nowhere near as popular as Ubuntu, it's their job to wonder why that is.


The point he's making is Fedora and Novell are writing all this software and Ubuntu folks are saying we are responsible for the great linux desktop, at the same time telling us Fedora and Novell abandoned us.

What are the reasons the desktop is good these days? pulse audio? evolution? dbus, hal.. fedora and suse are the major reason why gnome is a good desktop today. But i guess things like a free java and flash implementations aren't for the desktop, neither is all the X cleanup code done the last few months by fedora. Or the system-config-tools that ubuntu uses. you think those popped outta the sky? All the software ubuntu uses to tout its "so easy" mantra is written by these people yet have the audacity to point the finger at fedora and suse like they're not pulling their weight? What a joke.

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byrc Member since:
2006-02-18

*Ahem* I think you should thank Fedora for PulseAudio being where/what it is.

On that note, thanks Fedora, for making PulseAudio what it is.

Edited for clarification.

Edited 2008-04-18 19:17 UTC

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bornagainenguin Member since:
2005-08-07

Thanks Ubuntu for :
- AIGLX
- NetworkManager
- Xrandr
- pulseaudio
- etc

Ooops. Ubuntu only do upstart.


Drop from Ubuntu all the good work done by Red Hat and Novell. Have a nice day with this really Ubuntu-only distro.


*Ahem* I think you should thank Fedora for PulseAudio being where/what it is.

On that note, thanks Fedora, for making PulseAudio what it is.


Okay...sure. I'm certainly grateful for all of those things, but please let me ask a question...

What are those companies doing with all those?

Oh, right I forgot...they told all their home users to move over to Windows.

At least Canonical is pulling all those great things together and packaging them in such a way the average person can actually use them.

Ubuntu may or may not claim the home user desktop, but they're certainly further along now than many of the alternatives, and as I said before--the beauty and freedom of Open Source is that when (if?) Ubuntu ends up failing, there will be someone else along to take their place.

--bornagainpenguin

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