[CS-FSLUG] Why You Might Be Using Linux in 2009

[Fred A. Miller]

Ed Hurst wrote:
> Fred A. Miller wrote:
> 
>> Whatever you do, 2009 is looking to be a big year.
> 
> Not unless the arms race stops. I'm going to keep flogging that horse:
> As long as rolling release dominates the Linux scene, ordinary users
> will *never* adopt it. If we don't come up with a desktop project which
> forever chases its own tail, as GNOME and KDE do, with neither project
> every really fixing bugs and making anything a long-term standard, we
> will never have what it takes to capture the general public. The Linux
> Desktop is just a big hobby for hobby users only, and there aren't very
> many of them compared to regular users.

I dislike having to agree, but only because this IS the truth, and
therefore MickySoft is safe.

Fred

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