On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 20:17 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > Aza dotzler presentation on requirements for Desktop Linux is a relevant > article for what is appealing to the target audience > > http://piercedotzler.com/asa/linux%20%96%20in%20search%20of%20the%20desktop.pdf Owch, painful to read presentation. Guess my desktop isn't ready for it. This is the usual chicken-egg problem. He is full of what desktop developers should do. There are a few good points in there, which are overshadowed by problems not addressed. For example, how does he propose getting all of these preferences off a proprietary file system and out of proprietary applications? To live side-by-side, Windows needs to be installed on a FAT file system, which is usually not the case in the NTFS world. I appreciate that Linux desktop developers are trying to do better than just to cater to Windows users. People act like Windows is the be-all of computer experience. People get used to changes because they have to. Linux desktop being widespread will likely come about for the same reason Windows got widespread -- businesses adopted it, users got used to it at work, and they brought it home. When that happens, I will be proud that we didn't produce a Windows clone. - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Red Hat SELinux Guide http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/
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