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JimH:
I didn't mean that she would be the next Miss America.
jmone:
For 20 years, next year has always been the "Year of the Linux desktop (YoLD)" but it really has already happened for Unix with plenty of eyes on these spin offs:
- iOS
- Andriod
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OS X and iOS are based on BSD rather than Linux.
jmone:
I agree - hence I said they were Unix spin offs
XR219:
I was talking about this the other day with a colleague. Basically, until the Linux support documents and knowledge bases are written in plain English, it will never become a mass use desktop operating system. Even for noobs, most of the commands are random characters that a non techy cannot understand, so most folk who dabble glaze over and switch off. Even the old IBM System 36's and AS400's used commands that were very obviously shortened versions of what you wanted the system to do (GOLICPGM - Go licensed Program) Windows and OSX have a very much consumer focus. If you have a query on pretty much any of the Linux distros and you look for help on the web, there's no, click here, click here and click ok, its all command line driven. Its like the way you needed to know basic, back in the day, to get anything done on a Spectrum or BBC Micro (don't know if that will mean much to our friends across the pond). But in the 80's, computers were few and far between because you needed some basic knowledge of how to code to get much out of them. Windows / OS2 / Macs brought the GUI and the rest is history, command lines disappeared and usage globally shot through the roof. Commercially, it makes a lot of sense for the guys to work on a Linux version, but its not the same thing as end users switching on their Mac or Windows desktop and using it. Just my tuppence worth. :)
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