[Gllug] just preaching to the converted !

[Jason Clifford]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, paul wrote:

> I used have the opinion that learning a new operating
> system took took too much time but its nothing
> in comparison to the efforts you have to make
> in order to keep win 2k afloat.  By my own observations
> I am beginning to conclude that windows has been the
> victim of its own success but if Linux became as big
> as microsoft OS's have been - would it too suffer as bad?

No it wouldn't.

Most of the problems associated with the Windows platform derive from it's 
being inherently a non-connected single user system that is now being 
deployed in multiuser, hostile networked environments.

Linux on the other hand is entirely developed in that multiuser, hostile 
network environment.

Certainly there are a whole bundle of other problems Linux and other Free 
Software systems have to overcome.

My feeling is that the approach being taken by the Ubuntu crowd may well 
be the key to Linux finally taking a big chunk of the desktop market 
beyond us geeks but history will have to tell on that one.

Jason
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