Am 07.10.2010 um 20:54 schrieb Mark:
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Bill Campbell centos@celestial.com wrote: :
I have gone from OpenDesktop on SCO in the early '90s to Linux from 1996 or so to OS X shortly after it came out. The vast majority of my development is on Linux servers, but OS X Just Works(tm), and I don't have to be constantly fiddling to get tools working.
The vast majority of desktop users simply want to do things without having to worry about it.
I've been using CentOS on my desktop continuously since January 2007 and on my laptops during the last 2-3 years, and they mostly "just work."
Except for stuff like scanners. I doubt my mother would have been able to extract the firmware-binary blob for her scanner from some installer-cd (or even from a windows- installer).
Devs in the OSS-world seem too busy to invent yet another desktop, or sound-architecture or image-viewer (just count how many image-viewers there are on freshmeat - they're only beaten by half-assed GUIs for iptables).
Rainer