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

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

>Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 22:31:43 +0100
>To: seul-edu@seul.org
>From: Manuel Gutierrez Algaba <algaba@gmx.net>
>Subject: RE: [seul-edu] Making Linux look harder than it needs to be
>
>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.

(hehe , c-e is the end-line in emacs, ... but I'm not in emacs now, here 
C-e is send ....hehe)

Well, Linux has accomplished the basic goals :
- It burns CD's, much better than many commercial programms, OS'es.
- It has a good set of office programs.
- It's excelent for Internet, 100 % safety, no viruses, higher level of 
protection than any other progs.

This is the selling point of Linux. It's no longer a matter of advocacy, 
it's a matter of being practical. Linux performs better in any field.

The quality (and look ) of the Linux-related tools is so overwhelming, and 
the ease of installation is becoming so great, that we may experience a 
real flooding of Linuxes....

If Red Hat and Mandrake  lowered the price of their packages a bit, we 
could experience the miracle, ... or if they do a bit of advertising.

The final victory is near, why do you think Microsoft is so nervous ?

I think it's going to be a kind of Tsunami. Linux has that smile, the smile 
of the winner.

It's no longer a matter of producing new "weaponry", we have all of it, 
free educational games, loads and loads of progs...

Even the small nuisance that Red Hat have done by producing some propietary 
progs  while taking advantage of huge loads of free progs, thus preventing 
people to reuse their tools for configuring or whatever , even that small 
nuisance will be eroded promptly .
I think, in the future, people will build their own distro combining 
components from different vendors, it won't make any point talking about 
Red Hat, but about "Red Hat-based", and the core business will be 
consultancy and education and configuration ... Because system will 
increase their complexity, well, precisely, people will require more 
difficult things from their systems, so, newer systems will arise to give 
solutions to such needs, while the old needs will become even  easier and 
accesible to most  people.



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MGA