Re: Linux: slopware about to chase off millions of users

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Moshe Goldfarb

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:50:05 -0500, DFS wrote:

> "If Ubuntu doesn't solve this problem and solve it fast it will lose me and
> millions of others."
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=587905&highlight=freeze&page=46

It wouldn't surprise me at all.

The problem with being the most popular Linux distribution is that now it's
time to pony up and deliver because the people are ready and waiting.

It looks like Ubuntu is riddled with bugs which is not a good thing.

Tell me, Linux desktop is currently hovering on life support at about 0.6
percent of the desktop market share.

Can it go any lower?

Someone pull the plug on this fossil already.
People are obviously not interested in Linux as a desktop system.

--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
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On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:17:49 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:50:05 -0500, DFS wrote:
>
>> "If Ubuntu doesn't solve this problem and solve it fast it will lose me
>> and millions of others."
>>
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?
t=587905&highlight=freeze&page=46
>
> It wouldn't surprise me at all.
>
> The problem with being the most popular Linux distribution is that now
> it's time to pony up and deliver because the people are ready and
> waiting.
>
> It looks like Ubuntu is riddled with bugs which is not a good thing.

Why does it look like "Ubuntu is riddled with bugs"?

>
> Tell me, Linux desktop is currently hovering on life support at about
> 0.6 percent of the desktop market share.

"on life support"? How can Linux be "on life support" when its userbase
keeps increasing?

>
> Can it go any lower?
>
> Someone pull the plug on this fossil already. People are obviously not
> interested in Linux as a desktop system.

So, you will no longer be using and Linux distros?

--
Rick
 
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:30:02 -0000, Rick wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:17:49 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:50:05 -0500, DFS wrote:
>>
>>> "If Ubuntu doesn't solve this problem and solve it fast it will lose me
>>> and millions of others."
>>>
>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?
> t=587905&highlight=freeze&page=46
>>
>> It wouldn't surprise me at all.
>>
>> The problem with being the most popular Linux distribution is that now
>> it's time to pony up and deliver because the people are ready and
>> waiting.
>>
>> It looks like Ubuntu is riddled with bugs which is not a good thing.
>
> Why does it look like "Ubuntu is riddled with bugs"?

Read the forums.


>>
>> Tell me, Linux desktop is currently hovering on life support at about
>> 0.6 percent of the desktop market share.
>
> "on life support"? How can Linux be "on life support" when its userbase
> keeps increasing?

From what 0.6 percent to 0.8 percent over at least 10 years?
That's hardly anything to brag about.


>>
>> Can it go any lower?
>>
>> Someone pull the plug on this fossil already. People are obviously not
>> interested in Linux as a desktop system.
>
> So, you will no longer be using and Linux distros?

Of course not.
Linux will remain a niche desktop system.


--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/
 
"Rick" <none@nomail.com> stated in post 13v01iqfmhpofad@news.supernews.com
on 3/30/08 2:30 PM:

> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:17:49 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:50:05 -0500, DFS wrote:
>>
>>> "If Ubuntu doesn't solve this problem and solve it fast it will lose me
>>> and millions of others."
>>>
>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?
> t=587905&highlight=freeze&page=46
>>
>> It wouldn't surprise me at all.
>>
>> The problem with being the most popular Linux distribution is that now
>> it's time to pony up and deliver because the people are ready and
>> waiting.
>>
>> It looks like Ubuntu is riddled with bugs which is not a good thing.
>
> Why does it look like "Ubuntu is riddled with bugs"?

I have given you some examples in the past - largely dealing with
inconsistencies in its UI. From the general user perspective these appear,
at the very least, to be bugs. No reasonable designer would do so on
purpose!


--
"For example, user interfaces are _usually_ better in commercial software.
I'm not saying that this is always true, but in many cases the user
interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial
company..." Linus Torvalds <http://www.tlug.jp/docs/linus.html>
 
Re: Micoshaft Software: slopware about to chase off millions of users to Linux

Micoshaft Asstroturger Moshe Goldfarb wrote on behalf of half wits at
Micoshaft Corporation:

> Tell me, Linux desktop is currently hovering on life support at about 0.6
> percent of the desktop market share.


There are no approved ways of measuring Linux.
If you know of any please post instead of ranting with numbers supplied
by fraudsters from Micoshaft Corporation.

Linux is distributed not sold.
If you take press releases of Linux installs, then it is running
at least 1 million+ Linux desktop installs per month.
Embedded Linux is selling at least 3 million embedded Linux devices PER DAY.

Thats a lot of Linux advocacy done by people with their feet and their
wallets. Some $200 billion+ last year in revenues. Linux has created
a lot of millionairs.

And you can join the Linux bandwagon any time. There is no entrance fee.
Its all free to download, copy and install any time you want
and comes with source code.
http://www.livecdlist.com
http://www.distrowatch.com
 
Moshe Goldfarb wrote:

> Linux will remain a niche desktop system.

Good enough - it's such a "niche" that it commands almost 100% of the
desktop machines in China. It's such a "niche" that major Government
agencies are leaving the Windoze Crapware in droves - they want security,
reliability and a guarantee that the wanky yanks won't have buried yet more
back doors in their "operating system".

Now run along and play with your digital colouring set - after all, that's
just about the upper limit of Windoze use.

C.
 
Re: Microshaft Software: slopware about to chase off millions of users to Linux

Micoshaft Fraudster and Asstroturfer Bob Campbell wrote on behalf of half
wits from Micoshaft Coporation:

> "7" <website_has_email@www.enemygadgets.com> wrote in message
> news:VSTHj.2018$xA.1315@text.news.virginmedia.com...
>> There are no approved ways of measuring Linux.
>
> "Approved" by who - you?

I take it you don't know then?


> All of the accepted numbers (you know, the numbers accepted by everyone
> except Linux Loonies) show Linux below 1%. That you don't like the
> numbers doesn't make them "unapproved".

What a total fsck wit!

> http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=10
>
> http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2008/February/os.php
>
> http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist/zeitgeist-jun04.html

Submit these fraudulent techniques to a standards body
and get it approved before broadcasting fraudulent measurement
of Linux uptake.
 
Re: Microshaft Software: slopware about to chase off millions of users to Linux

Micoshaft Fraudster and Asstroturfer Moshe Goldfarb wrote on behalf of half
wits from Micoshaft Corporation:



> The BBC also pegged Linux usage at 0.8 percent recently.
> The fact is no matter where you pull the numbers, they come out pretty
> much the same.

You merely have to prove MSBBC used approved statistics.
Otherwise, their claims and techniques are fraudulent.

The last time MSBBC employees opened their mouth about Linux
uptake, they were publicly exposed as liars and fraudsters.


Linux is distributed not sold.
If you take press releases of Linux installs, then it is running
at least 1 million+ Linux desktop installs per month.
Embedded Linux is selling at least 3 million embedded Linux devices PER DAY.

Thats a lot of Linux advocacy done by people with their feet and their
wallets. Some $200 billion+ last year in revenues. Linux has created
a lot of millionairs.

And you can join the Linux bandwagon any time. There is no entrance fee.
Its all free to download, copy and install any time you want
and comes with source code.
http://www.livecdlist.com
http://www.distrowatch.com
 
Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:30:02 -0000, Rick wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:17:49 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:50:05 -0500, DFS wrote:
>>>
>>>> "If Ubuntu doesn't solve this problem and solve it fast it will lose me
>>>> and millions of others."
>>>>
>>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?
>> t=587905&highlight=freeze&page=46
>>> It wouldn't surprise me at all.
>>>
>>> The problem with being the most popular Linux distribution is that now
>>> it's time to pony up and deliver because the people are ready and
>>> waiting.
>>>
>>> It looks like Ubuntu is riddled with bugs which is not a good thing.
>> Why does it look like "Ubuntu is riddled with bugs"?
>
> Read the forums.
>
>
>>> Tell me, Linux desktop is currently hovering on life support at about
>>> 0.6 percent of the desktop market share.
>> "on life support"? How can Linux be "on life support" when its userbase
>> keeps increasing?
>
> From what 0.6 percent to 0.8 percent over at least 10 years?
> That's hardly anything to brag about.
>
>
>>> Can it go any lower?
>>>
>>> Someone pull the plug on this fossil already. People are obviously not
>>> interested in Linux as a desktop system.
>> So, you will no longer be using and Linux distros?
>
> Of course not.
> Linux will remain a niche desktop system.
>
>
So if you don't use linux at all then you really don't need to be involved in this ng.
 
mark <markh60@verizon.net> writes:

> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:30:02 -0000, Rick wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:17:49 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:50:05 -0500, DFS wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "If Ubuntu doesn't solve this problem and solve it fast it will lose me
>>>>> and millions of others."
>>>>>
>>>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?
>>> t=587905&highlight=freeze&page=46
>>>> It wouldn't surprise me at all.
>>>>
>>>> The problem with being the most popular Linux distribution is that now
>>>> it's time to pony up and deliver because the people are ready and
>>>> waiting.
>>>>
>>>> It looks like Ubuntu is riddled with bugs which is not a good thing.
>>> Why does it look like "Ubuntu is riddled with bugs"?
>>
>> Read the forums.
>>
>>
>>>> Tell me, Linux desktop is currently hovering on life support at about
>>>> 0.6 percent of the desktop market share.
>>> "on life support"? How can Linux be "on life support" when its
>>> userbase keeps increasing?
>>
>> From what 0.6 percent to 0.8 percent over at least 10 years?
>> That's hardly anything to brag about.
>>
>>
>>>> Can it go any lower?
>>>>
>>>> Someone pull the plug on this fossil already. People are obviously not
>>>> interested in Linux as a desktop system.
>>> So, you will no longer be using and Linux distros?
>>
>> Of course not.
>> Linux will remain a niche desktop system.
>>
>>
> So if you don't use linux at all then you really don't need to be
> involved in this ng.

Which NG? People who do not use Linux should be in COLA but
unfortunately the people there/here are loonies and scare prospective
new users away!

--
I thought you had a CS degree? And you never did a compiler course? I am
amazed! - Hadron Quark, COLA
Really? Why are you amazed? Do you think computer science courses include courses on writing
compilers too? REALLY? - Andrew "Spike1" Halliwell BSc CS, COLA
-- COLA where they put the lunacy in Advocacy.
 
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:36:21 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:30:02 -0000, Rick wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:17:49 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:50:05 -0500, DFS wrote:
>>>
>>>> "If Ubuntu doesn't solve this problem and solve it fast it will lose
>>>> me and millions of others."
>>>>
>>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?
>> t=587905&highlight=freeze&page=46
>>>
>>> It wouldn't surprise me at all.
>>>
>>> The problem with being the most popular Linux distribution is that now
>>> it's time to pony up and deliver because the people are ready and
>>> waiting.
>>>
>>> It looks like Ubuntu is riddled with bugs which is not a good thing.
>>
>> Why does it look like "Ubuntu is riddled with bugs"?
>
> Read the forums.

Read the Windows related forums.


>>> Tell me, Linux desktop is currently hovering on life support at about
>>> 0.6 percent of the desktop market share.
>>
>> "on life support"? How can Linux be "on life support" when its userbase
>> keeps increasing?
>
> From what 0.6 percent to 0.8 percent over at least 10 years? That's
> hardly anything to brag about.

That's a pretty big gain when you consider the lack of advertising, and
the herd mentality and network effects that must be fought.

>
>
>
>>> Can it go any lower?
>>>
>>> Someone pull the plug on this fossil already. People are obviously not
>>> interested in Linux as a desktop system.
>>
>> So, you will no longer be using and Linux distros?
>
> Of course not.
> Linux will remain a niche desktop system.

Let's make this clear... you are saying will no longer be using any Linux
distros?

--
Rick
 
"Rick" <none@nomail.com> wrote in message
news:13v09rgf0586p47@news.supernews.com...
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:36:21 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:30:02 -0000, Rick wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:17:49 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:50:05 -0500, DFS wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "If Ubuntu doesn't solve this problem and solve it fast it will lose
>>>>> me and millions of others."
>>>>>
>>>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?
>>> t=587905&highlight=freeze&page=46
>>>>
>>>> It wouldn't surprise me at all.
>>>>
>>>> The problem with being the most popular Linux distribution is that now
>>>> it's time to pony up and deliver because the people are ready and
>>>> waiting.
>>>>
>>>> It looks like Ubuntu is riddled with bugs which is not a good thing.
>>>
>>> Why does it look like "Ubuntu is riddled with bugs"?
>>
>> Read the forums.
>
> Read the Windows related forums.
>
>
>>>> Tell me, Linux desktop is currently hovering on life support at about
>>>> 0.6 percent of the desktop market share.
>>>
>>> "on life support"? How can Linux be "on life support" when its userbase
>>> keeps increasing?
>>
>> From what 0.6 percent to 0.8 percent over at least 10 years? That's
>> hardly anything to brag about.
>
> That's a pretty big gain when you consider the lack of advertising, and
> the herd mentality and network effects that must be fought.
>

No, it’s a joke. Linux will never be anything more than a hobby OS for
geeks. And a server OS in the back room. Every year since 1997 has been the
"year of Linux on the desktop." Its never going to happen. Have fun with
Linux. Enjoy it. But don’t assert that it’s a serious competitor for Vista.
 
Hadron wrote:

> mark <markh60@verizon.net> writes:
>
>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:30:02 -0000, Rick wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:17:49 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:50:05 -0500, DFS wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> "If Ubuntu doesn't solve this problem and solve it fast it will lose
>>>>>> me and millions of others."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?
>>>> t=587905&highlight=freeze&page=46
>>>>> It wouldn't surprise me at all.
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem with being the most popular Linux distribution is that now
>>>>> it's time to pony up and deliver because the people are ready and
>>>>> waiting.
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks like Ubuntu is riddled with bugs which is not a good thing.
>>>> Why does it look like "Ubuntu is riddled with bugs"?
>>>
>>> Read the forums.
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Tell me, Linux desktop is currently hovering on life support at about
>>>>> 0.6 percent of the desktop market share.
>>>> "on life support"? How can Linux be "on life support" when its
>>>> userbase keeps increasing?
>>>
>>> From what 0.6 percent to 0.8 percent over at least 10 years?
>>> That's hardly anything to brag about.
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Can it go any lower?
>>>>>
>>>>> Someone pull the plug on this fossil already. People are obviously not
>>>>> interested in Linux as a desktop system.
>>>> So, you will no longer be using and Linux distros?
>>>
>>> Of course not.
>>> Linux will remain a niche desktop system.
>>>
>>>
>> So if you don't use linux at all then you really don't need to be
>> involved in this ng.
>
> Which NG? People who do not use Linux should be in COLA but
> unfortunately the people there/here are loonies and scare prospective
> new users away!
>
Hadron where he puts the lunacy in Advocacy.

Cheers.

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A: Which one requires running lusermgr.msc to create them?

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Dick Hurtz wrote:

>
>
> "Rick" <none@nomail.com> wrote in message
> news:13v09rgf0586p47@news.supernews.com...
>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:36:21 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:30:02 -0000, Rick wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:17:49 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:50:05 -0500, DFS wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> "If Ubuntu doesn't solve this problem and solve it fast it will lose
>>>>>> me and millions of others."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?
>>>> t=587905&highlight=freeze&page=46
>>>>>
>>>>> It wouldn't surprise me at all.
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem with being the most popular Linux distribution is that now
>>>>> it's time to pony up and deliver because the people are ready and
>>>>> waiting.
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks like Ubuntu is riddled with bugs which is not a good thing.
>>>>
>>>> Why does it look like "Ubuntu is riddled with bugs"?
>>>
>>> Read the forums.
>>
>> Read the Windows related forums.
>>
>>
>>>>> Tell me, Linux desktop is currently hovering on life support at about
>>>>> 0.6 percent of the desktop market share.
>>>>
>>>> "on life support"? How can Linux be "on life support" when its userbase
>>>> keeps increasing?
>>>
>>> From what 0.6 percent to 0.8 percent over at least 10 years? That's
>>> hardly anything to brag about.
>>
>> That's a pretty big gain when you consider the lack of advertising, and
>> the herd mentality and network effects that must be fought.
>>
>
> No, it’s a joke. Linux will never be anything more than a hobby OS for
> geeks. And a server OS in the back room. Every year since 1997 has been
> the "year of Linux on the desktop." Its never going to happen. Have fun
> with Linux. Enjoy it. But don’t assert that it’s a serious competitor for
> Vista.

It's not a competitor to Vista. There is NO competition. Vista is a POS.
Period. Anything could compete with that toy operating system and win. Even
an Etch-A-Sketch.

Cheers.

--

A US president declared war on poverty. Poverty won.
Another US president declared a war on drugs. Drugs won.
This US president declared a war on terror. Terror won.
Next?
 
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:34:36 -0700, Dick Hurtz wrote:

> "Rick" <none@nomail.com> wrote in message
> news:13v09rgf0586p47@news.supernews.com...
>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:36:21 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:30:02 -0000, Rick wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:17:49 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:50:05 -0500, DFS wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> "If Ubuntu doesn't solve this problem and solve it fast it will
>>>>>> lose me and millions of others."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?
>>>> t=587905&highlight=freeze&page=46
>>>>>
>>>>> It wouldn't surprise me at all.
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem with being the most popular Linux distribution is that
>>>>> now it's time to pony up and deliver because the people are ready
>>>>> and waiting.
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks like Ubuntu is riddled with bugs which is not a good thing.
>>>>
>>>> Why does it look like "Ubuntu is riddled with bugs"?
>>>
>>> Read the forums.
>>
>> Read the Windows related forums.
>>
>>
>>>>> Tell me, Linux desktop is currently hovering on life support at
>>>>> about 0.6 percent of the desktop market share.
>>>>
>>>> "on life support"? How can Linux be "on life support" when its
>>>> userbase keeps increasing?
>>>
>>> From what 0.6 percent to 0.8 percent over at least 10 years? That's
>>> hardly anything to brag about.
>>
>> That's a pretty big gain when you consider the lack of advertising, and
>> the herd mentality and network effects that must be fought.
>>
>>
> No, it’s a joke. Linux will never be anything more than a hobby OS for
> geeks.

Or the OS that run the computers in the offices in the City of Largo, FL,
or the OS that runs many (most?) of the top 500 hundred supercompters.

> And a server OS in the back room.

As a desktop OS being used in Hollywood...

> Every year since 1997 has been
> the "year of Linux on the desktop." Its never going to happen. Have fun
> with Linux. Enjoy it. But don’t assert that it’s a serious competitor
> for Vista.

I haven't asserted it is a serious contender for Vista.

--
Rick
 
"Moshe Goldfarb" <brick.n.straw@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:ly5wf2hzttx5$.lpb681snyyj9$.dlg@40tude.net...
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:50:05 -0500, DFS wrote:
>
>> "If Ubuntu doesn't solve this problem and solve it fast it will lose me
>> and
>> millions of others."
>>
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=587905&highlight=freeze&page=46
>
> It wouldn't surprise me at all.

Unbuntu developers are the best, they fix real issues fast.

> The problem with being the most popular Linux distribution is that now
> it's
> time to pony up and deliver because the people are ready and waiting.

BTW, RedHat is the most popular. But Ubuntu is growing at a rampant pace,
and any time this might just be right.
 
"Dick Hurtz" <cio@utopoiaplanitia.us> wrote in message
news:us6dnTbwQpAArG3anZ2dnUVZ_hisnZ2d@comcast.com...
>
>
> "Rick" <none@nomail.com> wrote in message
> news:13v09rgf0586p47@news.supernews.com...
>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:36:21 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:30:02 -0000, Rick wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:17:49 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:50:05 -0500, DFS wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> "If Ubuntu doesn't solve this problem and solve it fast it will lose
>>>>>> me and millions of others."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?
>>>> t=587905&highlight=freeze&page=46
>>>>>
>>>>> It wouldn't surprise me at all.
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem with being the most popular Linux distribution is that now
>>>>> it's time to pony up and deliver because the people are ready and
>>>>> waiting.
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks like Ubuntu is riddled with bugs which is not a good thing.
>>>>
>>>> Why does it look like "Ubuntu is riddled with bugs"?
>>>
>>> Read the forums.
>>
>> Read the Windows related forums.
>>
>>
>>>>> Tell me, Linux desktop is currently hovering on life support at about
>>>>> 0.6 percent of the desktop market share.
>>>>
>>>> "on life support"? How can Linux be "on life support" when its userbase
>>>> keeps increasing?
>>>
>>> From what 0.6 percent to 0.8 percent over at least 10 years? That's
>>> hardly anything to brag about.
>>
>> That's a pretty big gain when you consider the lack of advertising, and
>> the herd mentality and network effects that must be fought.
>>
>
> No, it's a joke. Linux will never be anything more than a hobby OS for
> geeks. And a server OS in the back room. Every year since 1997 has been
> the "year of Linux on the desktop." Its never going to happen. Have fun
> with Linux. Enjoy it. But don't assert that it's a serious competitor for
> Vista.

Of the top 500 super computers in the world, 380 some odd run Linux. Of
those that remain, all but 6 run some form of UNIX. Only 6 run Windows. All
are at the bottom of the list in performance but near the top of the list in
performance. It is a market OWNED by Linux. Power computing is Linux
because it has the features, the programming tools and clustering. A front
that Microsoft never even had. The battle is exclusive of Linux and UNIX.

That being said, it is the extortion might of Microsoft that holds Linux
back. But Linux has more staying power and like the turtle in the race with
the hare, slow but surely, Linux will smack MS hard given nothing but time.
It is already growing in the I/T data center...go figure.

Thing about next time you google, the biggest integrated network of
computers in the world, all running Linux. As is Akami, a Microsoft service
provider.
 
"Canuck57" <dave-no_spam@unixhome.net> writes:

> "Dick Hurtz" <cio@utopoiaplanitia.us> wrote in message
> news:us6dnTbwQpAArG3anZ2dnUVZ_hisnZ2d@comcast.com...
>>
>>
>> "Rick" <none@nomail.com> wrote in message
>> news:13v09rgf0586p47@news.supernews.com...
>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:36:21 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:30:02 -0000, Rick wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:17:49 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:50:05 -0500, DFS wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "If Ubuntu doesn't solve this problem and solve it fast it will lose
>>>>>>> me and millions of others."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?
>>>>> t=587905&highlight=freeze&page=46
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It wouldn't surprise me at all.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The problem with being the most popular Linux distribution is that now
>>>>>> it's time to pony up and deliver because the people are ready and
>>>>>> waiting.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It looks like Ubuntu is riddled with bugs which is not a good thing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why does it look like "Ubuntu is riddled with bugs"?
>>>>
>>>> Read the forums.
>>>
>>> Read the Windows related forums.
>>>
>>>
>>>>>> Tell me, Linux desktop is currently hovering on life support at about
>>>>>> 0.6 percent of the desktop market share.
>>>>>
>>>>> "on life support"? How can Linux be "on life support" when its userbase
>>>>> keeps increasing?
>>>>
>>>> From what 0.6 percent to 0.8 percent over at least 10 years? That's
>>>> hardly anything to brag about.
>>>
>>> That's a pretty big gain when you consider the lack of advertising, and
>>> the herd mentality and network effects that must be fought.
>>>
>>
>> No, it's a joke. Linux will never be anything more than a hobby OS for
>> geeks. And a server OS in the back room. Every year since 1997 has been
>> the "year of Linux on the desktop." Its never going to happen. Have fun
>> with Linux. Enjoy it. But don't assert that it's a serious competitor for
>> Vista.
>
> Of the top 500 super computers in the world, 380 some odd run Linux.
> Of

So usage += 380.

Whoopee doo. And how much do they contribute back to the OSS
repositories I wonder?
 
NoStop wrote:

>
> linux is not a competitor to Vista. There is NO competition. linux is a POS.
> Period. Anything could compete with that toy operating system and win. Even
> an Etch-A-Sketch.
>
> Cheers.
>
Yeah...I agree!
Frank
 
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:51:12 -0000, Rick wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:36:21 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:30:02 -0000, Rick wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:17:49 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:50:05 -0500, DFS wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "If Ubuntu doesn't solve this problem and solve it fast it will lose
>>>>> me and millions of others."
>>>>>
>>>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?
>>> t=587905&highlight=freeze&page=46
>>>>
>>>> It wouldn't surprise me at all.
>>>>
>>>> The problem with being the most popular Linux distribution is that now
>>>> it's time to pony up and deliver because the people are ready and
>>>> waiting.
>>>>
>>>> It looks like Ubuntu is riddled with bugs which is not a good thing.
>>>
>>> Why does it look like "Ubuntu is riddled with bugs"?
>>
>> Read the forums.
>
> Read the Windows related forums.
>
>
>>>> Tell me, Linux desktop is currently hovering on life support at about
>>>> 0.6 percent of the desktop market share.
>>>
>>> "on life support"? How can Linux be "on life support" when its userbase
>>> keeps increasing?
>>
>> From what 0.6 percent to 0.8 percent over at least 10 years? That's
>> hardly anything to brag about.
>
> That's a pretty big gain when you consider the lack of advertising, and
> the herd mentality and network effects that must be fought.
>
>>
>>
>>
>>>> Can it go any lower?
>>>>
>>>> Someone pull the plug on this fossil already. People are obviously not
>>>> interested in Linux as a desktop system.
>>>
>>> So, you will no longer be using and Linux distros?
>>
>> Of course not.
>> Linux will remain a niche desktop system.
>
> Let's make this clear... you are saying will no longer be using any Linux
> distros?

No.
I said I will NOT stop using Linux.
I personally don't care if it's a niche system.


--
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