On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Giancarlo Livraghi <[email protected]> wrote: > The fact, as I understand it, is that unix has existed for forty years, > linux for twenty, but they were "for the experts". Now it's easy for > everybody. And that is a *big* change. Strangely enough, nobody (including > penguin advocates) seems to have noticed how important this can be.
IMO, it has been a Long March to Userfriendliness. In the late 90's every year was the year Linux was going to make it big in the desktop. A decade later it has still not happened and probably not going to happen in the way people expect it to happen. There are many reasons why Linux has become much more userfriendly. Device manufacturers wisening up and working actively to have drivers for Linux, the move away from ISA to PCI (and USB and UPnP), the rock-solid stability that Debian brings to the distribution space, the nicer uniform UI that GNOME and KDE have, etc. The money Shuttleworth invested in making Ubuntu is just one of the final steps (agreed, it is a pretty big step). Thaths -- "Marge, you being a cop makes you the man! Which makes me the woman... and I have no interest in that, besides wearing the occasional underwear, which as we discussed is strictly a comfort thing." -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
