Sriram J wrote: >> Can some one tell me what is the positioning of linux as an operating > system.
There isnt one. There does not need to be one. Its used on devices as mobile phones to the largest supercomputer in the world. I think what you need to do is read up a bit on what Linux is and the whole idea of open source :D > who are target audience/consumers of linux supposed to be. everyone who can use it. > is linux intended by design to always remain out of the reach of the person > who refuses to jump through hoops to get the hardware to work . I had to jump through no hoops to get my hardware working - I have 8 machines here at home, and 3 laptops. Also, if your statement was true - OSX would never had had a future, they support a much much smaller subset of hardware than Linux does - yet its gone from 3% to 7% of all Personal users ( not sure where the number came from, it was quoted at a recent meeting at work, correct me if I am wrong on that ). > i myself back in the days had to switch to windows because i bought an > unsupported video card and did not have the money to buy an new one. back in the day, I used to use os/2 since it gave me the best serial comms and tcp/ip support to get online. Ofcourse that was 1994/5 :D things have sort of moved on since. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
