We can do something!
Just saw a sign on the greenpeace blog:
When the last RIVER is POISONED.
When the last TREE is DEAD.
When the last FISH is CAUGHT.
then we realize we CANT EAT MONEY.
It is one of the reasons I ate fewer fishes these days, ... etc.
We all can do something, for mother earth.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Ubuntu Desktop
The key question for the Linux community has been asked since the Linux appeared is: When will Linux be on regular user's desktop?
There is no immediate answer for this question. It is like asking when *someone* will be grown up. The question itself doesn't make any sense to us. It only makes sense to business men who want to make money from it.
I think we should refine the problem to be: When will Linux Desktop be mature enough for (non-technical user) daily use? I am not qualified to answer this question since I am in technical industry. But I think Linux is just one-step away from it. It is capable of doing most of my daily routines and it looks cute (friendly).
For years, I've been waiting for a Linux distribution similar Ubuntu. Ubuntu is by far the most excited distro to me. I have no access (and lazy) to any formal statistics. But to now, the most widely used distros around me are: Fedora and Ubuntu. SUSE is not popular here but shall be strong in the desktop Linux.
Fedora is popular mostly because many RedHat Linux has been there for years and most engineers (who has no interest in specific OS) had experience with some RedHat Linux generation back to their years in school.
Ubuntu is more friendly than other distros and is best rated among users. Its default sudo only superuser design is way better than others. But the engineers mentioned in previous paragraph just will not give it a chance because people tend to use what they were used to, but not keep trying everything new. Another positive strategic for Ubuntu is (if you ever visited Canonical's hiring page) the embedded distro it is developing. However, the relationship with chipvendors is more important to deliver a quality BSP with lowest (maybe $0) royalty.
SUSE is backed by the agreement with Microsoft. As we can easily see in news, it is getting a good result from enterprise market. But the natural of being so commercialized could imply a strategy for making most milk out of its Linux distro, which in terms could imply it is not going to fully support poor users like me.
I predict Ubuntu to be the overwhelming one in Linux desktop market, as long as it doesn't try the server market. At the same time, I predict Microsoft to be the loser in the Linux competition as people has found out: Re-invent the 5th wheel of a van that Microsoft did is a waste of brain cells.
Ubuntu needs to keep its focus on strengthening an idiot-proof platform and making an GUI-only user be able to live happily with Ubuntu. And maybe creating a platform for users to customize their Ubuntu as easy as Firefox's Add-on management. (This one is what I want most.)
Hard to agree? Let's wait and see.
The key question for the Linux community has been asked since the Linux appeared is: When will Linux be on regular user's desktop?
There is no immediate answer for this question. It is like asking when *someone* will be grown up. The question itself doesn't make any sense to us. It only makes sense to business men who want to make money from it.
I think we should refine the problem to be: When will Linux Desktop be mature enough for (non-technical user) daily use? I am not qualified to answer this question since I am in technical industry. But I think Linux is just one-step away from it. It is capable of doing most of my daily routines and it looks cute (friendly).
For years, I've been waiting for a Linux distribution similar Ubuntu. Ubuntu is by far the most excited distro to me. I have no access (and lazy) to any formal statistics. But to now, the most widely used distros around me are: Fedora and Ubuntu. SUSE is not popular here but shall be strong in the desktop Linux.
Fedora is popular mostly because many RedHat Linux has been there for years and most engineers (who has no interest in specific OS) had experience with some RedHat Linux generation back to their years in school.
Ubuntu is more friendly than other distros and is best rated among users. Its default sudo only superuser design is way better than others. But the engineers mentioned in previous paragraph just will not give it a chance because people tend to use what they were used to, but not keep trying everything new. Another positive strategic for Ubuntu is (if you ever visited Canonical's hiring page) the embedded distro it is developing. However, the relationship with chipvendors is more important to deliver a quality BSP with lowest (maybe $0) royalty.
SUSE is backed by the agreement with Microsoft. As we can easily see in news, it is getting a good result from enterprise market. But the natural of being so commercialized could imply a strategy for making most milk out of its Linux distro, which in terms could imply it is not going to fully support poor users like me.
I predict Ubuntu to be the overwhelming one in Linux desktop market, as long as it doesn't try the server market. At the same time, I predict Microsoft to be the loser in the Linux competition as people has found out: Re-invent the 5th wheel of a van that Microsoft did is a waste of brain cells.
Ubuntu needs to keep its focus on strengthening an idiot-proof platform and making an GUI-only user be able to live happily with Ubuntu. And maybe creating a platform for users to customize their Ubuntu as easy as Firefox's Add-on management. (This one is what I want most.)
Hard to agree? Let's wait and see.
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