Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 30th Dec 2005 14:53 UTC
"I would like to announce a VMware Player image for Syllable 0.6.0a
available in the normal VMware images location. This works fine with VMware Player on Linux. I haven't tried it yet on Windows, but I assume it works fine there, too. This is a default install from the ISO, just like the rest, so you'll have to install Developer's Delight and whatnot by yourself." And before people complain: Syllable is an open-source (GPL) operating system aimed at the home/office user. It is the continuation of AtheOS.
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Member since:"There's not much the developers can do about it. Unfortunately over 90% of the market is controlled by a monopolist, and a lot of hardware companies don't seem to give a damn about it."
Linux could start by offering a driver ABI. While I agree with your general feelings here, I can full well understand why hardware manufacturers (or software manufacturers, for that matter) don't want to support a minority platform that thinks it has the luxury to act like quicksand. The competition offers both overwhelming market share and rigorous backward compatibility.
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Apple has more than 1% of the market, but I wasn't talking about market share at all.
The argument was that Unix systems traditionally "sucked" on the desktop, and I was just reminding the poster about Mac OS X, which is regarded by many as the best desktop operating system available and it is a Unix-like OS. You can claim Windows XP is the best, and doesn't suck because it's not Unix and because it has the higher market share. You can also claim IE is the best browser because it has the higher market share. Syllable and BeOS must absolutely suck, because they have no significant market share at all.
That's fine, in your own little world things might work like that.
About GNU/Linux and your problems with it, they're mainly caused by poor support from hardware manufacturers. You and your friend Joe User should learn that GNU/Linux can't support all PC-compatible computers when hardware specs are closed and some manufactures don't play nice. You can either install GNU/Linux on supported hardware only (if kernel compiling is mentioned, it's unsupported and by compiling the kernel you're just trying to work around that fact), or complain to the manufacturer of the hardware you bought why it's not supported.
There's not much the developers can do about it. Unfortunately over 90% of the market is controlled by a monopolist, and a lot of hardware companies don't seem to give a damn about it.
On the bright side, GNU/Linux supports most of the PC's on the market, and market share is rising. Yay!