RH recommends using Windows? plus a Question!

[Gord Busse]

Here's a little extra "change" for ya...

I use Red Hat 9 every day at home and at work. I love it, although I
have over ten years of experience working with various operating systems
and hardware, so any issues that I may encounter in my day to day use of
Red Hat 9 as a desktop operating system, I can usually figure out
myself. 

My parents have a Mac running Max OS X 10.2. They love it, they never
have a problem doing what they need to do on the computer... and it's
based on BSD!!! And BSD is not really that much different from Linux. I
cannot for the foreseeable future see myself installing Red Hat (or any
other Linux for that matter) for any of my family members or friends as
they are all at about the same level of computer knowledge. Some of them
use Windows and some use Mac's and they are all happy as they can do
everything they need to do with a minimum amount of hassle. My sister
went out the other day and bought a Web Cam, brought it home and plugged
it into her XP box and tada, it just worked. I didn't even have to go
over to install anything for her.

That said... if anyone was ever able to produce a Linux distro that is
equal in user friendliness, hardware support and software compatibility
to Mac OS X and XP then I would definitely consider installing for my
family and friends, and even my 90 year old Grand Dad!

Finally I have a question... with the amount of Open Source developers
on the planet, why has there not been a desktop Linux distro developed
yet that equals or even surpasses Mac OS X in user friendliness,
hardware support and software compatibility. I am sure that it is not
due to a lack of developers. Sure, Apple has lots of developers that are
being paid full-time, but I am sure that there are many times those
developers working part-time on Linux. So even if Apple has 10,000 (just
a guess) full time paid developers working on OS X, if there are 100,000
(again just a guess) part-time hobby developers working on Linux... why
hasn't Linux equaled or surpassed Mac OS X yet?

Well that's all the extra "change" I've got...

Gordo


-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-test-list-admin at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-test-list-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Eric Hartwell
Sent: November 4, 2003 9:47 AM
To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: RH recommends using Windows?

/* two cents and change
But that's where LUG's and community support come into play. If the 90 
year-old grand dad wants to install in Linux (or anyone else for that
matter) 
there should be some Linux community representative around to lend a
hand. 
(Where did grampa get teh Linux distro in the first place?) 

We linux people need to rise up and make our services know. Yeah yeah..
you 
wanna make a living off linux. go forth and do so. but remember that
Linux is 
community driven - we need developers and computer users to help those
around 
them. 
*/
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 11:42 am, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Eric Wood wrote :
> >
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39117575,00.htm
> >
> > Man, has RH really lost that much confidence in Fedora?
>
> ...and I would tend to agree with Matthew Szulik. Note the difference
that
> is made between home and corporate desktop : The (lower) average home
user
> has drastically different expectations then the corporate one : Games,
> Multimedia most notably, vs. Productivity and Communication tools.
>
> When so few 3D graphic cards have free native X drivers, and patents
> prevent the most popular multimedia formats from being supported in
> GNU/Linux distributions, it's just not possible to compete fairly.
>
> Matthias


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