begin quote from Kingsly John's mail: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > |I might be wrong in the next sentence, but could you show me one > |instance of innovation by the OpenSource community? > |Something which is really path-breaking? > > Apache, PHP , Perl ... > > They don't fall in the desktop category though.
Two of the most used software on my linux desktop are enough to refute the OP's claims: http://www.globecom.se/tora Falls in the workstation category, though. I haven't seen anything like that for Windows. Really a path breaking application. Go to that website and read the user comments. Mind you, I am a relative newcomer to the field of databases, and tora's been a great help. http://www.konqueror.org An innovative desktop application. So many usability features started first with konqueror, I guess. The split window feature, site/domain based cookie and javascript control, terminal emulator within the browser, web shortcuts, full blown usage of favicon.ico... > Compare KDE 3.x with Windows 3.x .. and you'll realise that the KDE > development effort is probably way ahead. You don't need to - kde 2.2.2 is enough. Anyone who says Linux is not ready for the desktop is full of faeces, of course. Just because a a few websites are designed for IE 5.5 or a few online pr0n/gaming sites have only windows versions of downloadable software doesn't mean that one cannot use Linux on the desktop. Binand _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
