[CS-FSLUG] Linux Today - Is desktop Linux too fragmented to succeed? A friend tells it like it is!!

Ed Hurst ehurst at soulkiln.org
Sun May 3 17:45:49 CDT 2009


On Sun, 03 May 2009 15:49:20 -0500, Timothy Butler <tbutler at ofb.biz> wrote:

> I think GNUStep/NeXTSTEP/Cocoa also are closer to the Haiku/BeOS  
> architecture. Which brings me to another wild point: perhaps if everyone  
> refocused on developing Haiku that would be a better return on  
> investment. It seems like with some fit and finish it could be far more  
> interesting than GNOME or KDE.

I'll go with pushing Haiku, if only because the GUI is vastly superior to  
X. I'm praying the Haiku folks can come up with a functional ACPI  
framework for suspend modes, and a strong driver set for wifi. That's  
about all it would take for me to switch.

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Ed Hurst
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