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.
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!
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.
Enter the Linux world… how???
January 14, 2006
When I want to start with Windows I open the Microsoft website. (easy)
When I want to start with Mac I open the Apple website. (easy)
When I want to start with Linux I start where? (hard)
A Google search is going to send you to some websites… but what about www.linux.com? An enterprise linux website. What about www.kernel.org? The original source of the Linux basis but where to start? What about www.linux.org? A old design, not very much information and full of ads… where can you start your way into the Linux world??? Its nowhere, first you need to find a distribution which is going to help you install Linux but why can’t there be a very easy general Linux information source which helps you? And sorry to say that again but no one needs all those distributions!
KDE 4 targets fall 2006 (after Vista)
January 14, 2006
Hm… my before blogged wish the before Vista release won’t happen… I already stated that in the post but now there are first details when the release can be expected:
AJS: We’re aiming for a release in fall 2006. We don’t have any firm timelines yet.
Out of an interesting KDE 4 preview interview with Aaron J. Seigo at LinuxDevCenter.com, here you can find the interview.
A good desktop takes its time and I can understand it.
Hello world!
January 7, 2006
Welcome to this blog. We will take a look around in the open world and spread the word for the latest ideas and developments in that world…! Have fun!
