On Tuesday 08 February 2005 12:58, Anurag wrote:
Sometime on Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 10:55:02PM +0530, Rakesh said:
- Unification of OS flavours, this is what I personally feel
about linux. Today there are so many flavours of linux that it becomes very difficult to judge out the best and stable distribution.
Debian. Knoppix.
UnitedLinux project took off with much hype some time back aiming to standardise distributions. But i never heard about it after that.
United linux had SCO (undrels) as one of the founders, and quitely ceased operations after the fiaSCO of SCO's lawsuit against some GNU/Linux users. The law suit was/is funded by M$. The suit against one of the users was thrown out recently. refer to http://www.groklaw.net to get the gory details of SCO's death by own lawsuit daily.
How linux will capture Windows Market ???
Linux is creating it's own market. The thread fails to see the larger picture. Which is desktop != computers and fragmentation of the os market into desktop, servers (low,mid, high, cluster), embedded, Realtime, gaming etc. with M$ nowhere in the picture in several of these and very badly mauled with failed projects in the embedded and realtime space. The one size fits all is long over. And branding and service headaches will ensure a healthy spread of companies and services. If anything this frag is the best thing to have happened to the computing industry. Watchout for new PCs with Powerpc cpus instead of i386. Infact today there was an announcement from Sony-IBM for playstation 3 using these chips.
rgds jtd