On 08/31/2012 08:09 AM, Ahmad Sofyan wrote:
Di kelas server, Linux memang diakui*). Di level desktop.. ada cukup banyak
permasalahan. Yang utama adalah kompatibilitas antara aplikasi dengan
lingkungan desktop. Paling tidak demikian menurut artikel ini.
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/osx-killed-linux/
Ini ada satu pendapat dari blog-nya salah satu developer Gnome:
http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2012/08/31/the-challenges-of-desktop-linux/
Sepertinya pendapat doi ini lebih menyeluruh, mungkin lebih masuk akal.
Poin2nya:
* We are trying to compete with a near monopoly (Windows)
* Companies tend to depend on a myriad of applications to run their
business, and just a couple of them not running under Linux would be
enough to derail a transition to Linux desktops
* We were competing not only with other operating systems, but with a
Office productivity application monopoly
* We are trying to compete by supporting an unlimited range of hardware
options
* We divided our efforts into multiple competing APIs (GNOME vs KDE)
* There was never a clear method of distributing software on Linux
outside the distro specific package system.
* Many of our underlaying systems were a bit immature
* Software patents on multimedia codecs made it hard to create a good
out of the box experience for multimedia
* Competing with free applications is never a tempting proposition for
3rd party vendors
* We never reached a critical mass where porting to desktop Linux tended
to make sense
* An impression was created that Linux users would not pay for any software
* The different update cycles of the distributions made it hard to know
when a new API would be available ‘everywhere’
* Success in other areas drained resources away from the desktop
**
All the best.
-arief
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