Linux ready for Primetime?

[Dana]

But is being on the average user's desktop the goal?
What if it remains a hackers'/hobbiests' operating system?
Is that so bad?

Actually, I do believe that linux or its' children will become
the dominant operating system some day.  But it will not be
developed in the US.  The third world will lead the way for
the basic reason that they cannot afford to pay M$ for their
operating system and software and so they have a greater
incentive to develop Linux than the US does.

Red Flag Linux if it doesn't exist now will certainly exist someday.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Wiles" <frank at wiles.org>
To: "KCLUG Mailing List" <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: kclug - [KULUA EVENT] KULUA vs Win2k -- UPDATE (fwd)

> But honestly, I don't feel that Linux ( or any of the BSDs and/or
> Unix in general ) is ready for the average user's desktop.  It's close,
>  thanks to things like Gnome and KDE, but we're still a long way off.
> We need better installation utilities, easier to use package management,
> better hardware support, more productivity apps, etc, etc, etc.  And
> those sorts of things will come with the help of big business, that was my
point.