[Watford] Why can't Linux do the same.....

[Peter Grant]

Read the article carefully:
"Android's line would be well above either"
So yes, Linux in the desktop space isn't doing well. But as the article
says, the desktop space is shrinking.
But Android (which really is a Linux as it's basis) is poping up all over.
And in the embedded products, Linux is everywhere, you just can't see it.
Like in the BT Infinity Open Reach modem. And set-top boxes (like Tivo..).
And given the hacks to run Linux on games consoles, I'd expect most of them
are Unix based systems, even if they aren't Linux per-se, probably BSD
based like OSX as the licence is nicer for business.
And since, like it or not, the current marketplace is going toward IT as
appliances then the embedded market is growing and general purposes
computers are headed towards not being mass produced - why do we need a
'year of Linux on the desktop' - if desktop and even laptop PCs are no
longer relevant?
Food for thought,
Peter

"When you have a Swiss Army knife of a mind, everything looks like it
should be dismantled." Danny O'Brien/Merlin Mann


On 17 February 2014 08:39, M Fernandes <myitpartneruk at gmail.com> wrote:

> This article is mainly about OSX versus Windows (and how OSX has overtaken
> Windows as the dominant operating system, and why Microsoft are
> concentrating on touch / mobile).
>
> http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2014/02/14/apples-oses-set-to-surpass-windows/
>
> It made me wonder why Linux (I know OSX & Linux are one-and-the-same, but
> I can't think of a way to differentiate them) isn't doing so well.  Linux
> already has several distributions which have adequate corporate backing,
> which was something that had been missing a couple of years back. What else
> does it have to do to get the same level of adoption / love?
>
> Mike
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