The Open Source Development Labs has voiced cautious optimism that its latest initiative could finally herald a mass-market for Linux on the desktop. OSDL is pushing ahead with Project Portland, to develop a common set of core technical requirements for Linux and open source software on the desktop, following a meeting of 47 companies and organizations it hosted earlier this month. Portland has identified a core set of areas, spanning the interface, plug-and-play, drivers and the kernel, that OSDL members will flesh out.
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Member since:2005-08-18
"I wonder how many people will be willing to update older drivers all the time. How many people will be willing to compile their apps all the time..."
"Users" dont have to compile anything, they use a distribution and just install the pre-compiled packages.
"Linux is a monolithic kernel..."
It's not a monolithic kernel, it's a hybrid kernel just like NT/XP.
"...100s of incompatible distributions to confuse the hell out of a user. "
It's not confusing since joe User only uses one distribution.
"Linux = Losers Invented New Unix xeroX (= clone)"
How clever. Nice to see that the art of trolling is still alive and well.
Member since:2005-07-06
It's not confusing since joe User only uses one distribution.
Really? And which distro is that? Should they go for Xandros, RedHat, Suse, Mandrake (or whatever it's called), Ubuntu, Slackware or (god forbid) Gentoo?
"Users" dont have to compile anything, they use a distribution and just install the pre-compiled packages.
Oh yeah? Every time I use to get a kernel update on Ubuntu I had to rebuild ndiswrapper from the console. This sort of thing in the norm, not the exception.
Member since:2005-07-14
Linux is a monolithic kernel with no unified driver model or fully asynchronous IO wrapped up with ad-hoc GUIs to make 100s of incompatible distributions to confuse the hell out of a user.
More like:
Linus is a kernel that is often used for special devices such as cell phones, TiVos, or Google search machines and is sometimes used on the desktop by hobbiests and cheap businesses.
And none of its a bad thing. I can't see myself going back- its 64 bit support its far better!
Member since:2005-07-09
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2005-07-10
Rayiner either you are another biased windows hater or a chutia (= dumbass_. You decide which one you are.
Apple doesn't need to bother about hardware because they make all their hardware but think about the number of windows users and weird hardwares windows run on. Let aside that, think of 100s of different drivers for windows. Microsoft is able to develop new driver models without breaking the OLD stuff.
On the other hand, Linux is a mess. SysInternals guys wrote filemon for Linux and Linus broke it in next rev...ultimately they got tired of the goose chase and gave up. I wonder how many people will be willing to update older drivers all the time. How many people will be willing to compile their apps all the time...
Linux is a big freakin mess....As i said in past and i will say it again:
Linux is a monolithic kernel with no unified driver model or fully asynchronous IO wrapped up with ad-hoc GUIs to make 100s of incompatible distributions to confuse the hell out of a user.
Linux = Losers Invented New Unix xeroX (= clone)