Guest bones4jones@gmail.com Posted October 6, 2007 Posted October 6, 2007 Re: what we are about On Oct 6, 3:47 pm, Gene Jones <ja...@janus.com> wrote: > Dean Plude <xenop...@charter.net> wrote: > > In my many years using linux I have come to know that to truly support > > and promote linux as I did with brunswick and many others is simply show > > large companies that there are choices in an OS and that they do not > > have to pay a fortune to get.I will never forget when I gave the head > > manufacturing engineer a Debian BO disk and simplly said check it out . > > that was all it took. > > Remember World Domination is our ultimate goal. > > Linux will never achieve anything close to world domination unless the > users unite and follow Apple's OSX direction. Now Linux has pretty much > become a footnote in history compared to what apple is doing with UNIX. > > So unless that changes, it's a slow fade to black for the Linux > community. > > You guys have a chance, but you must "unite" - it's that simple. > > OSX is now about 9 times as large in the world, 6 years ago you guys > were neck and neck. What happened? No leadership is the answer. > > Within the next few weeks, OSX is going to be a CERTIFIED UNIX. > > Why isn't Linux up to this certification level? > > http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/ Linux is far too fragmented to accomplish anything useful. It's two hundred thousand developers all trying to release their own version of Linux.
Guest Gordon Posted October 6, 2007 Posted October 6, 2007 Re: what we are about Re: what we are about <bones4jones@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1191705624.157060.40790@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... > Linux is far too fragmented to accomplish anything useful. > It's two hundred thousand developers all trying to release their own > version of Linux. > Umm no. there are now two or three distro that dominate the "market" - (K)Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS being two of them. How many versions of Vista are there? Five? Six?
Guest Randy Oaks Posted October 6, 2007 Posted October 6, 2007 Re: what we are about Re: what we are about <bones4jones@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1191705624.157060.40790@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... > On Oct 6, 3:47 pm, Gene Jones <ja...@janus.com> wrote: >> Dean Plude <xenop...@charter.net> wrote: >> > In my many years using linux I have come to know that to truly support >> > and promote linux as I did with brunswick and many others is simply >> > show >> > large companies that there are choices in an OS and that they do not >> > have to pay a fortune to get.I will never forget when I gave the head >> > manufacturing engineer a Debian BO disk and simplly said check it out . >> > that was all it took. >> > Remember World Domination is our ultimate goal. >> >> Linux will never achieve anything close to world domination unless the >> users unite and follow Apple's OSX direction. Now Linux has pretty much >> become a footnote in history compared to what apple is doing with UNIX. >> >> So unless that changes, it's a slow fade to black for the Linux >> community. >> >> You guys have a chance, but you must "unite" - it's that simple. >> >> OSX is now about 9 times as large in the world, 6 years ago you guys >> were neck and neck. What happened? No leadership is the answer. >> >> Within the next few weeks, OSX is going to be a CERTIFIED UNIX. >> >> Why isn't Linux up to this certification level? >> >> http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/ > > > Linux is far too fragmented to accomplish anything useful. > It's two hundred thousand developers all trying to release their own > version of Linux. Agreed. Linux is the classic case of "too many cooks in the kitchen." If Linux were going to succeed in the consumer market it would have done so already. Now it's simply too-little, too-late as Linux has absolutely zero mindset with the consumer. OSX and Vista will continue to dominate. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
Guest John C. Randolph Posted October 7, 2007 Posted October 7, 2007 Re: what we are about Re: what we are about On 2007-10-06 14:20:24 -0700, bones4jones@gmail.com said: > Linux is far too fragmented to accomplish anything useful. Nonsense. Linux is used to run all kinds of server apps in big and small production environments. It's also the best thing to use when you have legacy Windows apps that you have to keep around: just stick them in a VMWare environment, and it doesn't matter when they get corrupted because you can instantly restart them from a pristine state. -jcr
Guest John C. Randolph Posted October 7, 2007 Posted October 7, 2007 Re: what we are about Re: what we are about On 2007-10-06 16:19:54 -0700, "Randy Oaks" <roaks@hotmail.com> said: > Linux is the classic case of "too many cooks in the kitchen." More like, too many kitchens and too much effort to find the kitchen that's making what you're hungry for. > If Linux were going to succeed in the consumer market it would have > done so already. Which consumer market? Linux is already in a hell of a lot of consumer devices, from TiVos to cell phones. > Now it's simply too-little, too-late as Linux has absolutely zero > mindset with the consumer. OSX and Vista will continue to dominate. No, XP will dominate as Windows' market share erodes. Vista is a flop. Vista is the best thing that Microsoft could possibly have done for their competition. It will cost them 40% or more of their market share, with LInux picking up most of the server business and the Mac getting the portable and desktop installations. -jcr
Guest Kier Posted October 7, 2007 Posted October 7, 2007 Re: what we are about Re: what we are about On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:20:24 -0700, bones4jones wrote: <snip> > > Linux is far too fragmented to accomplish anything useful. > It's two hundred thousand developers all trying to release their own > version of Linux. Inaccurate. Most developers are maintaining and creating packages, not distros. And, although it's quite a challenge to do so, a handful of developers can keep a distro going - see PCLOS or Mepis for examples. -- Kier
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