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To: Aubie who wrote (62)	6/30/1999 1:49:00 AM
From: Clint Todish	Respond to of 72

Agreed Roddy - the most compelling reason most people don't want Linux on their desktop is the total lack of popular (3rd party) GAME support. Almost everything else is out there: email apps, web browsers, graphics tools, etc...even XFree can be made somewhat user friendly (e.g. KDE). Linux really shines on the back end, however. We deployed almost 100% RedHat Linux for back end processing (Internet/eCommerce) in our company - some 20+ SMP servers and all have been incredibly reliable. Unfortunately, most established IS managers in large corporations will never consider Linux until there is an accountability chain (read service contract) available for it. They want someone to be a scape-goat if something goes wrong. RedHat could easily be this corporate interface. Dell has decided to go with RedHat and so far seems to be having a good go with it: dell.com dell.com dell.com dell.com Anyway, IMHO, open source is the wave of the future...RedHat is very well poised to take the lead. -C

To: Aubie who wrote (62)	6/30/1999 1:58:00 AM
From: Jerry Whlan	Respond to of 72

Actually, just to be pedantic, MS copied from Apple, Apple copied from Xerox PARC and PARC copied from Douglas Engelbart at SRI (Stanford Research Institute). X was never really in the lineage, more of a branch from the work at PARC. See this URL for the details: mercurycenter.com

To: Aubie who wrote (62)	6/30/1999 10:18:00 AM
From: HubTech	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 72

I too am happy with the X interface but I think that it is not robust enough (or maybe too robust, either way its not quite right) for the mainstream desktop user. My comment about a single user interface was not meant as 'a single interface' but as 'an interface for a single user'. The way that most (graphical) desktops are used (including gaming) assumes that there is one monitor, one keyboard, one mouse and one user using them. Unix (character) based systems were specifically designed not to be this way and thus there are some unique challenges to be faced in creating a 'single user' interface to a 'multi user' operating system. ... HubTech P.S. Cool site, Roddy. Are you going to add Progress (http://www.progress.com/services/pressrm/releases/pr_linux_051799.htm) to your database section? Low cost of ownership makes Progress on Linux very interesting. Also adds 5000+ third party apps to the list.