A Recent DevX editorial makes the (often made) claim that Linux’s lack of a single standard UI will hamper its adoption on the desktop and makes developing applications for Linux more difficult. Hard-core Linux users love having the choice of many operating environments, and they are hardly likely to resolve the KDE vs Gnome argument anytime soon. Is there any hope of more standardization? Should we even want it?
“Linux is not an operation system, but a kernel. It does not have a GUI.”
“The only person who can give Linux a GUI is Linus Torvalds, but so far he did not (and I doubt that he ever will be).”
“GNU/Linux is an OS, and its official GUI is Gnome.”
“And for hell’s sake, stop using the word Linux for anything but the kernel and the server platform. I know Linux is a well-known name, but it does a bad job at describing a desktop, since it does not have a GUI and you can install a thousand of different GUIs on it. ”
Even the people running Linux can’t agree on just what the hell it is apparently.
50 different distros, multiple packaging schemes, 100 different guis etc. etc. etc.
Sounds like more of a pain in the ass than choice.
I’ll stick with windows myself. It has some issues but its a far cry from the pandora’s box that is Linux, or whatever you call a kernel written by Torvalds with god knows what GUI on top of it.
SCO Linux? (hehe)
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/6736/comment/21534#MSG
The left hand doesn’t know what the right hands doing.
Or they talk out of both sides of their mouth …
I could go on.
Why do they? …