I don't understand what the noise is all about. Roland Dyroff is right about every point he brought up. I love Linux and I use it as my main platform both at home and at work but I have to agree that Linux is not quite ready for the desktop. It is coming close, but it is not there yet. For example, to be ready for the desktop it must have, among other things, the ability to handle MS Office documents (Word, Excel, etc.) with 100% accuracy. Whether we like it or not, that is what 95% of businesses are using today, and that it what people use at home, since they need to ability to exchange documents between work and home. I am yet to find a program that can handle Office documents with 100% accuracy, or even 75% accuracy. I have tried them all, WP, StarOffice, Applix, Abi Word. Linux installation: I believe that today, with some distributions, the installation of Linux is almost as easy as a Windows installation. The difference is, that when you buy a computer today, %99.99 of them come pre installed with Windows, not Linux. The users don't have to install anything, which makes Linux by definition harder to install. Instead of crying for Mr. Dyroff's head, we should all thank him for being sincere. We are getting enough lies from Microsoft, we don't need to hear them from the makers of our favorite distribution. By opening our eyes to the weaknesses in Linux, the truth allows us to improve the operating system. Avi SJ Black wrote:
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OK, I've gone over the CNN article. About a 1/2 dozen times.
Dyroff's sanity needs be called into question.
Anyone - ANYONE - releasing a top-of-the-line product, and then claiming it's not able to compete in a given market is shooting themselves in the foot... to say nothing of their employees, who create - often painstakingly - that product.
As a businessperson, programmer, and consultant, i have to think twice about tossing support behind SuSE. Until now, i've been a staunch supporter. I like the product. It's the most comprehensive distro on the market. It'll do for damned near any purpose conceivable. But CEO's like Dyroff have a tendency to sabotage such good efforts. Who the hell is he working for - M$??? Or Caldera??
Articles like this are a slap in the face to people who are actively promoting SuSE Linux. I'm sure the companies who are investing huge sums of cash to support the Linux effort don't like it much either.
I dare Dyroff to tell IBM, Intel and a few other major league players that Linux isn't ready for the desktop market. He'll have a great many people to answer to if he does.
Right now, he's not much credit to the company that pays him.
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