On 2018-11-06 13:41:45 Michael wrote: > On Tuesday 06 November 2018 11:55:34 am andre_debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > On Friday 02 November 2018 03:55:53 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > > > > > Is it a good new ? > > > > > > Can this new make reviving Linux in the public market, > > > > > > or only in the professional cloud market ? > > > > > > > > > > Best question of the year : > > > > The discussion about Linux to reach ~10% market shares and more, > > for home computers in the world some month ago, > > was that companies as RedHat and IBM, proposes an "easy" Linux. > > > > Recently, this wish is on the success road, IBM bought RedHat. > > > > Now, hope that IBM will materialize a good Linux system, > > able to be used by every one and not only a cloud Linux... > > "Easy Linux" > > That’s pretty much the only thing that will ever increase *nix’s market > share beyond the 2-10% it is now in the ‘home user’ demographic. > > ‘Cause let’s face it, if you’re asking ‘Mom’ to make decisions on partition > structure or “ssh server” during the install, you’ve lost the entire ‘home > user’ demographic... > > As to IBM buying RH? IBM’s one of the odder multi-national conglomerates. > They have been known to support ‘stuff’ for the good of mankind (or at > least IT-kind). But, they also do weirdness like selling their notebook > and x86 server lines to Chinese Lenovo, which completely destroyed their > “one stop shop” / “soup to nuts” capabilities. IBM's attitude toward Linux is very much contrary to that of the rest of their product line. I keep hoping that they will some day release a back-level version of their Mainframe VM OS for use by hobbyists; that would be a boon to their efforts to stem the tide of migration off their proprietary platform, but they don't seem to recognize the power of familiarizing potential users with their proprietary products. > > Hopefully, as mentioned earlier, IBM will dissemble systemd, as they pretty > much do understand the concept of ‘up time,’ but... Given they didn’t > listen to their sales exec’s on the x86 stuff, who knows? > > Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting