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
sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
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.
But these two are not the only flavours of Linux used by people. A good deal of people use Fedora, Mandrake and SUSE with different installer requirements. From a developer point of view, he has to care for packaging rpms or write code for all these variety of platforms or ship the tar.gz which from a novice administrator point of view is difficult to manage. Different installers wouldn't be a problem but the library paths and configuration paths (AFAIK) are different for different flavours to some extent. It would be easier for a developer if he writes code on one flavour of linux and that runs absolutely well on other flavours as well so that he can concentrate more on the features or logic of the code rather than concentrating on dealing with different library paths. Correct me if my perspective is wrong in this context.
On Tuesday 08 Feb 2005 4:29 pm, Rakesh wrote:
to manage. Different installers wouldn't be a problem but the library paths and configuration paths (AFAIK) are different for different flavours to some extent. It would be easier for a developer if he writes code on one flavour of linux and that runs absolutely well on other flavours as well so that he can concentrate more on the features or logic of the code rather than concentrating on dealing with different library paths. Correct me if my perspective is wrong in this context.
100% right - some distros use prefix as /usr and others /usr/local and still others use both. Some hide postgresql in weird places and other softwares barf when installing as they cant find the headers. I avoid rpms like plague - but even installing from source faces the problems above