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To: mowa who wrote (8368)	12/27/1999 7:45:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) of 9798

mowa, your list of Linux World Domination stoppers is close. Ease of install is the boogie man. But to me that includes getting a gui up and Xfree86 is a stumbling block. Once Linux is installed and you can reboot and bring up X, the other item mentioned are relatively 1% problems compared with the install problems. The other somewhat more important issue is color printer drivers that support the full resolution of inexpensive ink-jets. mtools make floppies a non issue. hmmm... an mtools kind of operation for cdroms. xfm and xv and netscape make or easy file browsing. wine is just fooling oneself, until applications are fully ported then widespread adoption won't happen. Emulation is a can of worms of poor performance and stability. The best and the brightest don't care about this and regard it as a form of prostitution. Emulation is not working to have applications as good as the competition today. Emulation is working to have applications as good as the competition two years ago. Sound support would make fully ported applications nicer. None, (linux distribution creators)as far as I can tell, understand what true auto install is and no one is working the problem. In the Open source model we explains how the bazaar creates better code than the cathedral model, this is true for many types of software. But xfree86 the xserver is hundreds of custom hardware devices and not just anyone can write device drivers. Plug and play is another hardware specific area. High resolution print drivers are another hardware specific area. These are the area where a cathedral with central control can more create a consistent interface. I always use commercial xig AcceleratedX for my xserver as I've found that the install for over a dozen different video cards is identical. Now over time hardware manufactures may all start supporting Linux, but until some higher level of penetration the lack of this universal hardware support will always be a problem for the level of ease of install. So I see no advantage to corl's distribution and several reviews have paned it and several have praised it. But then other distributions get similar reviews. The problem for corl is that the corl products are not outstandingly better than anything and I don't see companies or indivividual's migrating or changing for replacements. In my watman.com I go over other competitive aspects of corl. Tom Watson tosiwmee

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