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08-04-2002, 02:42 PM

Well...

I have to admit, the latest programs that run on Linux are indeed a good step closer to the Desktop OS market for Mr. John Doe. Evolution beats Outlook and Outlook Express hands down. Mozilla makes IE redundant as a browser. KDE and Gnome have matured and grown into nicely looking desktops, however...

Like I said, the level of Linux on the desktop market is still compareable to Win3.1 or Win95 at best. There is still a command line interface underneath the GUI and CLIs are things that scares Mr. John Doe halfway into next week. It's time to get rid of the shell scripts and make a clear definition between Desktop Linux distros and Server Linux Distros.

What is needed is something like Windows, with X compiled into the kernel and optimized for speed. Add standard good programs that allows Mr. John Doe to do what he wants, like surf the net with Mozilla, write and read emails with Evolution and write up a pretty letter in OpenOffice. Mr Doe doesn't want the latest Apache HTTP server with mod_perl, PHP 4.3.0CVS, mod_auth_mysql and whipped cream on top of it. Nor would Mr Doe have a small armada of techinical buzzwords thrown at him. Hide Debian apt-get under a nice frontend and make it simple so users can download entire programs with a single mouseclick and have them installed.

But untill we clearly divide Linux Desktop distros and Linux Server distros, (Red Hat being very guilty here) Linux as a Desktop will FAIL repeatedly for Mr Average.

08-04-2002, 02:42 PM	#9
Ingham Posts: n/a	Well... I have to admit, the latest programs that run on Linux are indeed a good step closer to the Desktop OS market for Mr. John Doe. Evolution beats Outlook and Outlook Express hands down. Mozilla makes IE redundant as a browser. KDE and Gnome have matured and grown into nicely looking desktops, however... Like I said, the level of Linux on the desktop market is still compareable to Win3.1 or Win95 at best. There is still a command line interface underneath the GUI and CLIs are things that scares Mr. John Doe halfway into next week. It's time to get rid of the shell scripts and make a clear definition between Desktop Linux distros and Server Linux Distros. What is needed is something like Windows, with X compiled into the kernel and optimized for speed. Add standard good programs that allows Mr. John Doe to do what he wants, like surf the net with Mozilla, write and read emails with Evolution and write up a pretty letter in OpenOffice. Mr Doe doesn't want the latest Apache HTTP server with mod_perl, PHP 4.3.0CVS, mod_auth_mysql and whipped cream on top of it. Nor would Mr Doe have a small armada of techinical buzzwords thrown at him. Hide Debian apt-get under a nice frontend and make it simple so users can download entire programs with a single mouseclick and have them installed. But untill we clearly divide Linux Desktop distros and Linux Server distros, (Red Hat being very guilty here) Linux as a Desktop will FAIL repeatedly for Mr Average.