Linux is easily taking the server and geek market but the market were you need to be cool and very userfriendly is not coming to Linux. Linux is just out of ideas and can’t show anything, Linux isn’t a desktop – Linux is still the old terminal with all the commands and the ugly startup and then they are the “Linux inside” people which create a distribution and create all around Linux but as the oldschool Linux is still inside, it doesn’t change… Linux is without a vision – a system that will never suceed because its only like DOS, Linux would win market against DOS but it stopped after that… there are the projects that try to bring desktops for Linux like KDE and Gnome but they are not Linux. Like there is one desktop for Windows and Mac OS X that really wins the people there should be one for Linux but there isn’t, what makes Linux what it is, just better then DOS and only for geeks better then Windows. Apples ideas around x86 are just crazy, limiting and not limiting, they would win people when they would open their system but it looks like they want to wait until Mac OS XI.
Linux wake up and join the straigt idea of Windows and Mac, or keep on geeking and never win the big desktop.
If Linux can’t – could KDE, GNOME or someone/thing else? NO!
February 24, 2006
Linux can’t win the Desktop. The work behind Linux is to create the Kernel and the system around is spread to many projects and there is not a general Linux vision so Linux from it’s point to be just Linux won’t take over the Desktop, it must be one of those creations, the Distributions, but as we see they are so many and they can’t really take the Desktop either so what about KDE?
I think KDE can reach more users with the next big step, I would call KDE 4 “four is one” because it will be the biggest step and you can’t expect it before Spring 2007. It needs to change to a project that creates and controls your whole Linux experience from controlling your whole system and maintaining it and coming with all the cool programs you want to use. We see that there is not much unification in the Linux Desktop world, and the Linux Standard Base is a useless approach to reach this. The next step needs to be done by KDE because Linux and the Distributions are not responding. They all base on Linux which doesn’t follow any Desktop visions and the Distributions bring their own Control Centers which creates another thousand options next to the KDE Control Center. So all in all it’s not easy for a new user to find their way to Linux.
What about GNOME? A project that does the little work but came up with beagle, a very cool search tool, but it’s the other big desktop that is fighting for beeing the better desktop, of course the developers never say they are fighting but if they wouldn’t, they could unite their projects and reach out for more.
So is there even a chance for Linux? Not at the moment. And I’m sorry to tell you but there isn’t a big chance for Linux right now to take over the Desktop. As long as Linux runs without a vision for reaching the Desktop none of the Desktops alone can do the work. So KDE 4, GNOME 3, and other future projects might be cool approached but as long as they don’t get the support from the Linux base, they can’t bring the innovation together so Microsoft is probably gonna take another win with Vista, though it is full with not the lastest ideas, its just again going to be a bunch of new look-things and everybody is just going to say wow but it won’t be that kind of a show. So what to do? Ask the Linux guys to get a vision! Look around on Mac OS X as it starts running on non-apple machines (not legally but the time might change that) and ReactOS… or maybe there might be a change but for this you need to bring those thousands of heads of Linux, Distributions and all the other projects together and let them create a goal, right now the system got to big to have the power to suceed in taking on the Desktop. Until those changes take place, Windows can continue it’s monopol non-sense win.
Look into the future of Linux: XGL
February 3, 2006
Some people might have already read it somewhere else but this is the hottest think to show of about Linux and Graphic… this comes close to Mac OS X and Windows Vista ideas.
Its called XGL (project website here) and gives the Linux Desktop the possiblity to have cool effects like transparency, 3D things, … with the usage of OpenGL what might be a bummer because you will probably need a very good graphic card and some people just want some effects without buying an up-to-date graphic card for video games they don’t play.
Novell showed this stuff around… get it here as video!!! (see it in action): http://www.linuxedge.org/?q=node/55
The best KDE 4 mockups so far!
January 29, 2006
Just take a look at those 2 screenshots…
Vote for it at kde-looks.org, Authors website
Okay the bad thing is that I don’t know if this guy is still working on. On his website is very old news and the icons he announced are not finished and I think he started them a longer time ago too. Would be happy if this is one approach for KDE 4 because it looks very good.
Other KDE 4 ideas/mockups/… here http://kde-look.org/?xcontentmode=65!
So thats what Windows user miss under Linux
January 29, 2006
Novell is popping up with breaking news… the most wanted applications Windows user miss under Linux:
- Quickbooks
- Autocad
- Photoshop
- Itunes
- Dreamweaver
- Visio
- Lotus Notes
- Quicken
- Macromedia Studio
- Act!
(Quelle: Novell OpenPR)
This list is not a new news and there were diffrent effort at Adobe and Macromedia… they could jump on the port effort now and all the other applications too. Business software should port and some multimedia apps are missing. But that is not new… I think Novell should make this a bigger effort and not a little project to get many votes in and to be able to then urge companys to change something.
So what do you think…
Linux - a new approach for a driver system like Winows needed?
X - a faster development of Mac OS X-like features and those cool graphic effects? (actually those already showed some cool new things)
KDE and GNOME – who is coming up with what? KDE 4 is supposed to come and come but not this year, I’m pretty sure. GNOME 3? Sometime? The GNOME guys are showing us stuff like the beagle search and a more optimzed desktop in things like configuration (kcontrol is a killer for some people, for me it is).
The next step in the Desktop approach is the new world… a new way of desktop using including all those new things appearing around the world, after Mac OS X Windows will join with Vista and will bring up some standard things but probably won’t come with cool stuff like beagle. Thats the point were Linux could be – but will it be there and how long will it take Linux to get there? At the moment all the diffrent KDE projects popping up showing us ideas for KDE 4 but there is no big roadmap for the KDE 4 wins the desktop approach!
A new Linux driver system (that would allow binary drivers too) and a new KDE or GNOME desktop with cool new improved and very easy ways to use a computer including cool ways with X would bring a big change in the world. An easy way to install Linux drivers and closed driver support would bring more user and then with a new approach to use a desktop would get users like Firefox was able to get so many people!
But who is going to do those changes for Linux? For the desktop/KDE/GNOME world? Who makes the plan and who has a strong voice? Which team can set up the ultimate goals for the real Linux Desktop Approach? That is the key question for Linuxs Desktop success!
Approaching the KDE future?
January 28, 2006
With appeal http://appeal.kde.org/wiki/Appeal
Cool extender and file manager design http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=30012
KDE Metabar (another Windows XP approach) but with an awesome desktop desing I would love to have http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=28725
No KDE 4 release this year? / What needs to be done (questioning Linux and the Desktop)
January 21, 2006
The latest news from the blog of one of the KDE 4 developers Aaron J Seigo:
with kde4 a year or so away, 3.5 will likely
continue to be the default kde desktop shipped on supported operating systems
for at least the next 12-18 months.
(Source: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/)
Some days ago he wrote it would more to be fall but I would expect only the first more or less full beta releases by this time. I thing KDE 4 has to work hard with the Appeal project and powers like Windows Vista, Mac OS X to come up with the same new Desktop for the Linux system. New ideas are on the table but I think the developers have to question the support of the Linux community for a Desktop Linux before they can really start working… what about the first united Linux Control Center??? Driver control under KDE? Easier management of KDE software? KDE-own package manager independent from the system? KDE together with Linux or on top of Linux? So many things to question…
The Firefox effect: Bring Linux in the news!
January 21, 2006
Another interesting link to a blog/project which wants to bring some publicity for Linux by advertising (like Firefox did in various newspaper):
http://lobby4linux.com/WordPress/?p=74
It gives an interesting overview with the Linux problems that I covered too in my 3 Linux problems post (Distributions, Drivers, Desktop; Link to my post) and even other ideas I have posted here in the last time.
It’s time to merge KDE and GNOME
January 20, 2006
It’s a very big thing and they are two very big libraries (GTK and Qt) but it’s a waste of energy to maintain two desktops at the same time. I think there should be a new effort to get those two desktops together and fing the perfect way like Windows uses only one desktop. With KDE and GNOME together there could be a universal desktop that can do everything…
I don’t even like this don’t care about one of the desktops and just use the one you want to but than I find a GNOME application and what then?
I can’t believe how much time is spent on creatings so many desktops for Linux and doing all the work the second, third, … time without thinking! The idea of open source is working together on a very good solution but the actual way is creating thousands ways and reaching the goal only half…
