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| Thread ID: 46143 | 2004-06-15 00:43:00 | Discussion: What Do Newbies (And you) Need to Make the Switch to Linux?? | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
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| 244589 | 2004-06-16 10:46:00 | Just to follow on from that reason why Developers wont release Drivers etc: Basically in the last LUG meeting we had a Novell Rep come and talk to us. Novell have bought out SuSE and Ximian Novell are now pushing their Desktop OS for use in a Corporate environment, with offerings that can not only compete with everything from Microsoft, but help businesses, educational institutes and government corporations free themselves from more restrictive liscencing (Apparently Suns Java Desktop is worse than MS products! :D). From their, Novell's idea seems to be that users will have it at work, and want the same thing at home, to run the same apps, and interoperability etc. Then, the kids / teens / gamers will have it on their desktop and will vote more with their wallets for Games that run Natively (Such as Unreal Tournament) on Linux. From there, hardware manufacturers will tap into it.... That's Novells idea anyways (Jen do you want to make sure I got that right?) Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 244590 | 2004-06-16 10:53:00 | They should be pushing it into schools,and makin teachers use it. | metla (154) | ||
| 244591 | 2004-06-16 11:08:00 | Yes, users may end up using Novell products at work, but would they convert at home? Microsoft has such a large user base in the home because it's what a lot of people grew up with. Essentially, the end users who consider making the change will need "reconditioning" to expend so much effort, not to mention good lures and a guarantee of support should everything go wrong. Stability here is not an issue, it is the first impressions, and if it all goes horribly wrong when they are just starting out, they won't very much like it. |
agent (30) | ||
| 244592 | 2004-06-16 11:10:00 | > They should be pushing it into schools,and makin > teachers use it. That's what Novell are hoping for, Checking out some of their products.. Brilliant... And from there they'd sell off copies of the OS for something like $5 each seems to be the expected price for Students etc, and Novell are basically hoping to take their new SuSE Desktop to the Masses :-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 244593 | 2004-06-16 11:10:00 | >That's Novells idea anyways (Jen do you want to make sure I got that right?) The LUG was very interesting hearing where Novell is heading with Linux and their SuSE and Ximiam products. They are really keen to get Linux (SuSE/Ximian) into the corporate desktop market and these two products are being developed to make this change-over as seamless as possible. For example the inclusion of Ximian's Evolution which is a Outlook clone with all the same functionality and very similar appearance. They are business partners with IBM and Dell, and IBM especially, are rolling out Linux certified computers to be used as desktop/laptop machines (this is only really happening in the larger overseas market at the moment). Although, if they get a big enough order (100+), it will be commerically viable to produce these systems here. Novell are looking for the corporate user with a Linux desktop computer, to also want the same system for their home computer (well this is the idea in the grand scheme of things). As more users are demanding Linux systems, pressure will go on manufacturers to produce support and drivers for Linux OS's. This will roll over to the family wanting to play games, and again, it will be more commercially viable for the game developers to produce native Linux games. But unfortunately, until user market demand increases, the gamer's will have to wait a bit longer. A think Linux is fast becoming a rolling-stone, gathering up speed as it becomes a more viable real alternative for all as a desktop system. It will be very interesting to see what the desktop market looks like in the next 2-5 years time. :) |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 244594 | 2004-06-16 14:31:00 | > > *yawn* did you think I really directed my post just > at you? Ditto "Yawn" Whiskey Tangled Foot . Am taking the advice of previous posts to ignore all that is irrelevant and take advice from those who have the ability to reply to queries in an intelligent, well-informed and helpful way . Fortunately that applies to 99% of the people in this forum or I wouldn't bother to read the posts . Marg . PS the electrical trade have used 'colour' in their business for many years . It makes good sense to do so . |
pulling hair out (4493) | ||
| 244595 | 2004-06-17 00:37:00 | I'd use Linux if most of my customers did, so I could offer them support. None do, so i can't be bothered at this stage. I'm not enough of a geek to wanna try it out just for its own sake, despite being mildly curious | Greg S (201) | ||
| 244596 | 2004-06-17 06:53:00 | On the note of Drivers for Linux, have a look at what Ive come across today: "Open Funding" for Driver Development (slashdot.org) Seems like a good idea, right :-) ...But will it work?! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 244597 | 2004-06-17 07:45:00 | www.joelonsoftware.com I like this comment: "Remember the definition of an operating system? It's the thing that manages a computer's resources so that application programs can run. People don't really care much about operating systems; they care about those application programs that the operating system makes possible. Word Processors. Instant Messaging. Email. Accounts Payable. Web sites with pictures of Paris Hilton. By itself, an operating system is not that useful. People buy operating systems because of the useful applications that run on it. And therefore the most useful operating system is the one that has the most useful applications." |
kiki (762) | ||
| 244598 | 2004-06-17 07:55:00 | A fellow /.'er ;-) Read that earlier today, quite an interesting article with some valid points! | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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