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The Desktop Dilemma (Open for Business)
This Open for Business article warns
that Linux distributors that concentrate on the server to the
exclusion of the desktop will lose out in the long run. "I
believe this is the critical flaw with most of today's Linux companies'
narrow focus on the server. What they fail to understand is that their
strength in the server market will never be secure so long as they ignore
the client market. By conceding the desktop market to Microsoft, or
anyone else for that matter, in essence they cede the server market as
well."
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The Desktop Dilemma (Open for Business) Posted Aug 13, 2002 0:08 UTC (Tue) by stephenjudd (subscriber, #3227) [Link] I have thought for some time that the spread of Windows as a server OS can be explained this way:- people gain expertise using Windows on the desktop - they "graduate" to working on systems that are more important to their organisation - where they can, they prefer the familiar. No one starts out in life with a server OS these days - we start out on the desktop.
The Desktop Dilemma (Open for Business) Posted Aug 13, 2002 1:18 UTC (Tue) by mgb (subscriber, #3226) [Link] We have the opposite problem with RedHat 7.3.It keeps growing in size. Powerful tools such as linuxconf are replaced They're killing all those back-room firewalls and routers and file/print
The Desktop Dilemma (Open for Business) Posted Aug 13, 2002 11:15 UTC (Tue) by utidjian (subscriber, #444) [Link] Linuxconf was a powerful tool... it also had its problems... too many problems. If you want a good powerful admin tool for servers use Webmin (http://www.webmin.com). No reason to be running a GUI on a server and plenty of good reasons not to.For some reason my installations of RH7.3 boot with GRUB on systems with software and hardware RAID just fine. -DU-...etc...
The Desktop Dilemma (Open for Business) Posted Aug 13, 2002 14:47 UTC (Tue) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link] Powerful tools such as linuxconf are replaced by half-assed tools which require huge X-windows libraries.This of course depends on your definition of "half-assed" and "huge." :-) The "redhat-config" tools in Limbo are nice, and most of them even work! There were some problems with redhat-config-xfree86 in the first beta, but this has been fixed. They all use GTK2, which could reasonably described as huge, but I don't know if they link Gnome libs or not. One would hope not. LILO was deprecated before GRUB could boot from RAID. Are you sure about this? The release notes for 7.2 contained the sentences "We now use GRUB as the default boot loader. However, LILO is still available for legacy installations." But I haven't seen LILO appear on the deprecated list. On a related note, some of us are still wondering what happened to Tkinter. It's status appears to be in limbo..
The Desktop Dilemma (Open for Business) Posted Aug 13, 2002 17:36 UTC (Tue) by NetGhost (guest, #690) [Link] I can not agree more with this article, it's obvious likedaylight: one can not fight just for server market; the whole history of distributed computing show it: THE CLIENTS dictate the server's features, strategy and ultimately existance. That's where MOZILA failed to protect us from IE development and IE gain of market share. To me this is so obvious, that I never though such an issue could be still a debate nowdays. It's more then obvious: it's an axiom!!
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