RE: [seul-edu] Making Linux look harder than it needs to be

[Manuel Gutierrez Algaba <algaba@gmx.net>]

If the creation and evolution of Linux (whatever Linux is, kernel, distro 
or GUI's ) was a surprised, the future trends and evolution of Linux is 
simply unpredictable, there're some dozen of distros but at the same time a 
couple of distros are concentrating all the horsepower (Red Hat-Mandrake, 
Debian).
There're lots of way of interacting with the computer , simple text 
consoles, old X windows manager, fancy impresive desktops (KDE, Gnome ),...

A think the real force of "Linux" is not about being a monolyth.


At 01:37 p.m. 06/12/01 -0600, you wrote:
>I'm thinking that the linux "expert" he is talking about had no idea
>that those tools were there, because it's a mandrake distribution, and
>he doesn't use mandrake. There are all kinds of GUI tools that are
>different depending on which distribution you are on. The only constant
>is the underlying console based utilities and configuration tools. You
>in effect, cease being a Linux user, and become a RedHat, Debian, or
>Mandrake user. This would be different if they standardized these tools
>and the packaging schemes, but they don't. There's not enough of a
>demand for it.
>