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From: Moshe Goldfarb on 7 May 2008 11:08
On Wed, 7 May 2008 08:31:47 -0400, DFS wrote:

> "I believe it will never become mainstream in it's current form."
> http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1327806771&t=28030

At 0.6 percent of the desktop market after 10 years and despite being free,
that is probably a true statement.

Linux should give up on the desktop market, like Redhat did, and
concentrate on servers and embedded devices.

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From: notbob on 7 May 2008 11:30
On 2008-05-07, Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.straw(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Linux should give up on the desktop market......

Yeah, live your fantasy.

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9272932512.html

If Windows is "mainstream acceptance", I want no part of it.

nb
From: notbob on 7 May 2008 11:35
On 2008-05-07, Hadron <hadronquark(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> "if"? What planet do you live on? Just because you dont see many Windows
> desktops.....

By choice. I don't eat at McDonald's, either.

nb
From: Douglas O'Neal on 7 May 2008 11:45
On 05/07/08 11:08, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 2008 08:31:47 -0400, DFS wrote:
>
>> "I believe it will never become mainstream in it's current form."
>> http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1327806771&t=28030
>
> At 0.6 percent of the desktop market after 10 years and despite being free,
> that is probably a true statement.
>
> Linux should give up on the desktop market, like Redhat did, and
> concentrate on servers and embedded devices.

You might take a look at
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Ubuntu-804-Is-Ready-to-Take-On-Windows/

eWeek is generally fairly Windows-centric yet they're giving Linux a
chance.
From: Jean-David Beyer on 7 May 2008 11:50
Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 2008 08:31:47 -0400, DFS wrote:
>
>> "I believe it will never become mainstream in it's current form."
>> http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1327806771&t=28030
>
I, personally, do not care if Linux becomes "mainstream" or not. I find it
suits my needs much better than Microsoftware does. If you do not find this
to be the case for your needs, use something else. Why not?

> At 0.6 percent of the desktop market after 10 years and despite being free,
> that is probably a true statement.

It is difficult to measure the desktop market after 10 years, or after any
period of time because Linux software is not always sold, and even when it
is, it can usually be copied free to other systems. So (ignoring piracy),
Microsoftware can be measured rather accurately, where Linux systems cannot.
There are probably many more Linux systems operating out here than the sales
figures from Red Hat (for example) would indicate. One attempt to measure
this is at web site http://counter.li.org/ . This site counts only the
number of users and machines actually reported by the users, so is a severe
undercount. On this page, http://counter.li.org/estimates.php , the owner of
this site tries to estimate the number of Linux users and comes up with a
figure of twenty-nine million. He explains how he arrives at this number.
>
> Linux should give up on the desktop market, like Redhat did, and
> concentrate on servers and embedded devices.
>
That is an interesting comment.

Red Hat has given up _making money_ on the desktop, but it does support the
Fedora project by providing servers and Internet connectivity for its
developers. It may also allow its employees to contribute effort to Fedora.

Red Hat does not supply any specifically desktop distributions anymore, but
I run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on my main desktop (and CentOS4 on my other
one). I think their long-term support for each release (7 years) is worth
the expense. YMMV

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