Re: Linux Status, was Re: Compiler status
Not too sure about that, Ben. Maybe that's the case in North America and
Europe, but in South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, etc.) and
also in Spain, it seems that everybody is at least experimenting with Linux,
not just in their own home systems (partitioned disks, mostly) but also in
all kind of commercial enterprises.
Newsstands and libraries are carrying Linux distributions, software,
articles, how-tos, and so on. A lot of business people are going slowly
crazy about StarOffice. If this goes on, nobody will remember Win vs Linux,
it'll just be Gnome vs KDE. Two monthly magazines+cdrom dedicated solely to
Linux programming are selling quite well at nearly $10 each (1 peso = 1 US
dollar), and the best and 'Users', the most popular general computer
magazine in Argentina, is now nearly half Linux.
Seen the Corel distribution? It's not exactly the best or most complete, but
think of it in terms of a common, non-expert user, who really wants/needs a
better Win95+Office without having to pirate or pay hundreds of dollars or
upgrade to 128 MB and 20 MB HDs just because.
Moreover, a lot of kids who never knew the joys of the command line and the
'manual' writing of code are discovering that Linux is fun!
So, give it five years more.
Gerardo E. Brandariz
----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Fosberg <BenFosberg at WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: Linux Status, was Re: Compiler status
> Yes, I believe that about the web backbone, and believe that there are
very good reasons
> for the situation. Didn't mean to imply that Linux was not rapidly gaining
the market
> share it deserves, simply that it doesn't yet have anywhere near the
massive number of
> "hands-on" users that DOS has, even without considering - as someone else
mentioned -
> that Windoz is simply(?) a overly complex wrapper for DOS.
>
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