[luau] Newsforge: What Linux needs most (it's not more features)

[John & Sheila Nickerson]

On Sunday 03 March 2002 08:30 pm, you wrote:
 On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, John & Sheila Nickerson wrote:
 >The iBook with OS X and it's bundled in software which included AppleWorks
 > is what I have been hoping Linux will become.  It ain't Linux and it ain't
 > open source but it's close enough for me to say I hope Apple's marketing
 > department is wildly successful and Apple and OS X make serious inroads
 > into the Microsoft hegemony.

 So basically, what you're saying is that _good software_ is its own
 marketing?  ;-)

 --jc
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 Jimen Ching (WH6BRR)      jching at flex.com     wh6brr at uhm.ampr.org

Jimen,

 Well, I'm not sure that's what I'm saying there.  

First, I think even good software needs to be marketed.

Second, while Linux abounds with good software it isn't really of the 
"marketable" variety.  One or two apps yes but not the "Linux experience".

Third, the revelation came when I started to use OS X and the software it 
comes with.  With the exception of Omniweb, I haven't addeded any software to 
what came with the iBook and it's all the Unix/Linux I need and all the GUI 
software I need.  It has nfs and samba apache csh/tcsh etc. configured and 
working out of the box and nice browsers office apps a decent email client 
and multimedia apps.  So far all this stuff "just works".  I haven't given up 
on Linux by any means.  I love to tinker but again, that's a hobby not a 
market.  At least not a mass market.

And there's no stupid registry to drive me nuts and so far no sign of dll 
hell either.  I can pretty much depend on everything essential being in one 
folder to backup or trash (uninstall).  

I never cared for Macs before and I thought that OS 7,8.9 were ok but no 
really great shakes as an operating system.  Pretty yes, but no better than 
windows as an OS.

It will be interesting to see how the UNIX/LINUX communities take to OS X.  I 
expect they will form a new group of Mac evangelists along with the education 
and creative arts people.

Well I'm rambling now.  I hope this clarifies what I meant.

John


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