It is that time of the year again. Somebody in the technology press needed something to write about. So what do they do? They recycle the old predictions about how Linux will finally make inroads into the PC market this year. They find some IT guy in an obscure distant country, which nobody has ever heard of, who recently bought a few laptops with Linux pre-installed. This guy, let’s call him Stan, tells us that this year it’s not all about Linux servers. Stan tells us that Dell Laptops (and the “no child left behind laptop program”) has finally made laptops so cheap that the only obvious thing is that everybody will soon want Linux on their laptops. And it’s not just kids living in poverty. It’s college students, and single mothers, and socialist governments. Stan knows. Stan is all of
them wrapped up in a penguin costume.
My biggest complaint(S) about these annual predictions is that they have to happen in the first place. Really, how often can you cry wolf about this. Why should we have to endure your silliness every year? I bet that the writers who generate this stuff don’t even use Linux.
Let me give you a tip about Linux. Linux will never, never, never, never make any inroads into the Windows desktop market…. not any… none… zilcho….until they have seamless integration between the Linux operating system and iPods and iTunes. You can cry all you want about how it’s not fair that Linux isn’t more popular than Windows, but until Linux can support an iPod, please stop threatening us with how Linux is going to be shipped on every Dell laptop in the near future.
If you are thinking of writing an article about how this will be a break out year for Linux, please go back and read what I said LAST YEAR about Linux. It’s not going to happen this year, or the next, or the one after that……..
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Linux what is the problem with linux well its a public domain operating system modled after unix. All in all it kicks ass compared to windows or dos if you get a good well written version of it. As for it taking over the windows market I agree with you Mr. Sqeaky it will never take over the windows market for the average user. However it has a lot of useful places in the server market.
mark on April 8th, 2008 at 2:44 pm | Link
“And it’s not just kids living in poverty. It’s college students, and single mothers, and socialist governments.”
How do you figure Left Wing politicians favor Linux?
The Logos on April 11th, 2008 at 2:23 pm | Link
Its a free bee that programmers can latch onto for profit Go figure.
mark on April 11th, 2008 at 7:36 pm | Link
“………“And it’s not just kids living in poverty. It’s college students, and single mothers, and socialist governments.”
How do you figure Left Wing politicians favor Linux?”
For the record, I didn’t say that Left Wing politicians favor Linux. I threw in “and socialist governments” in reference to Hugo Chavez and his recent push towards using Linux on all government computers and shipping it on his new line of “Bolivarian Computers.”