What the Linux Desktop Needs (OS Views)

What the Linux Desktop Needs (OS Views)

Well, I'm sorry. But he really need a clue.

I've being in set-top-boxes business several times. You/he completely miss the point how it works.

[ The real problem with commercial guys that they overly lazy. And their beloved brute force programming methods just do not work with OSS. ]

You select components. You fix your software development requirements. And you do development. Time comes - you update yorself to newer version.

I had a brilliant example of such process, when company started development of their application for KDE1/Qt1. They have missed completely KDE2 - and customers signed-up for beta were need to use KDE1. Piece of cake with Linux: people just kept RedHat 6.x installed along with newer version of Linux. Then some time before release, KDE3 integration process started. And not that they have any huge problems with that either.

Version was release for Qt3 and tested on SuSE 8.0 with KDE 3.0.2. And customers were advised to use SuSE. And not that it bothered any customer.

Probably my knowledge is bit outdated. But from my time, the problem was RedHat: they never ever include releases in RHL - always latest greates pacthed CVS versions of libraries/application. That is pain. Fortunately SuSE was Okay on that issue.

P.S. Actually how hear complains that SuSE 9.x does as RHL - untested patched stuff right from CVS... :-/

P.P.S. And do not forget what actually Progeny Linux is all about. Never knew people using it, but custom distro is all what it is about. And Debian itself - I know prety much people still using Debian 2.2 - well that what I call stability.