[cwelug] Re: Interesting article re: Linux & Google Chrome OS

[Robert & Janet Bennett]

One assertion from the article that I questions is that the Gnome and KDE have copied (at least conceptually) Microsoft Windows. This other article I read claims that the Linux windows mangers and desktop environments evolved separately but converged to end up to be similar:  http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm "Linux has gone from Command-Line- to Graphics-based interfaces, a clear attempt to copy Windows Nice theory, but false: The original X windowing system was released in 1984, as the successor to the W windowing system ported to Unix in 1983. Windows 1.0 was released in 1985. Windows didn't really make it big until version 3, released in 1990 - by which time, X windows had for years been at the X11 stage we use today. Linux itself was only started in 1991. So Linux didn't create a GUI to copy Windows: It simply made use of a GUI that existed long before Windows. Windows 3 gave way to Windows 95 - making a huge level of changes to the UI that Microsoft has never equalled since. It had many new & innovative features: Drag & drop functionality; taskbars, and so on. All of which have since been copied by Linux, of course. Actually. . . no. All the above existed prior to Microsoft making use of them. NeXTSTeP in particular was a hugely advanced (for the time) GUI, and it predated Win95 significantly - version 1 released in 1989, and the final version in 1995." Linux fans claims that it is more likely that MS copied from Gnome and KDE features vis-a-vis Windows 7 and KDE 4. (last sentence is my comment.) Patrick Pippen wrote: I just can't wait to see people's reaction to google's OS. On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Scott Granneman<sc...@granneman.com> wrote: "Putting What Little We Actually Know About Chrome OS Into Context" http://daringfireball.net/2009/07/chrome_os_context Note especially his last footnote. Interesting, I wonder how close to the truth is that last footnote. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: cwelug@googlegroups.com To subscribe: cwelug-subscr...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe: cwelug-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---