[GRLUG] Linux use

[Adam Tauno Williams]

These types of surveys can't even begin to include number of appliances
LINUX is used in; from your refrigerator [Samsung] to your TV  [LG] to
innumerable industrial contraptions.  And nearly every HP printer model,
and numerous Brother printer models.

On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 13:24 -0400, Bob Kline wrote:
> According to the same source, OS X has
> about 6% the desktop market.  Now that's
> based on BSD, which would transparent to
> most users.  

I disagree with this statement.  Whatever kernel something uses, or even
equivalent of glibc/libc, doesn't in the end mean much of anything to
the "user".  System state, configuration, and file-location of Mac OS/X
is quite a bit different than the FHS to which most distributions comply
to some degree.  Mac OS/X also does not have X-Windows [by default]
which is the defacto UI of 'destop' LINUX.  Supporting one doesn't
necessarily buy you much in supporting the other.

> So this suggests that Linux
> as much as anything lacks a marketing 
> vehicle,

This [lack of a "marketing vehicle"] has turned out to be the, perhaps
terminal, weakness of FLOSS solutions.

>  and both Linux and OS X never
> got the $billions of training dollars from
> corporations that windoz got.  And of course
> people stay with what they know, so now
> breaking in to the windoz monopoly will be
> very tough.




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