[AccessD] OT: open source

On 6 Apr 2004 at 19:31, Bob Hall wrote:

> Linux will never have a standard GUI, because Linux is really only the
> kernal. Linus Torvalds doesn't do shell or GUI development. All Linux

True enough. I guess I should have said that the various Linux 
Distros need to standardise on a desktop. KDE or Gnome.

> Everything else is whatever the distro teams want to include. They're
> never going to agree on a default window manager. On the other hand, a

>From what I understand the windows manager doesn't need to be 
standardised, ithe the desktop environment.

There is the XServer, then there is the windows manager and then 
finally the desktop environment.

> The immediate threat to MS has been security problems, due to massive
> numbers of bugs. MS seems to have improved a lot since Gates sent out
> his famous security e-mail. The three OSs gaining market share right

I actually don't think that security is high on most peoples list. 
Otherwise why is my Win2K desktop at work only approved to be at SP1? 
I have said screw it and installed SP4 myself.

> seats. So I would say that Linux is a threat to Windows in the
> workstation market, not the server market.

The problem is that Linux is not making the inroads on the desktop, 
but in the server room right now.

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