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I remember you saying at last year's Linux.conf.au that you were quite focused on the desktop. How do you feel it's gone in the past year?
What's kind of interesting is... literally in a year or so, it's been concentrated almost entirely on server space and things like telephony, where you have big companies setting things up.
Within the last year, even six months, there are big companies now interested in literally not just selling desktop Linux, but also using desktop Linux internally.
I mean it's going to take, literally five to 10 years before "normal users" start seeing Linux desktop, but in the technical space it's doing pretty well, especially in companies that can support it already.
Za razliku od ljubitelja Microsofta (od kojih mozda neki nisu cak ni procitali tekst obzirom da se australijski sajt koji je izbacio interview veoma sporo ucitava) ja ovaj Linusov odgovor potpuno drugacije tumacim. Moj komentar se otprilike poklapa sa jednim od ucesnika diskusije na gore pomenutom OSNews.com koji kaze sledece:
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Linus isn't saying that Linux will be desktop-ready in 5 to 10 years, just that it will take 5 to 10 years before it becomes common on the average home user's desktop. Those are two very different things.
Personally, I think that Mac OS X is quite desktop-ready - and yet it's not commonly found on home desktops. Market share has little to do with techical and ergonomical merit, but rather is the direct results of economics, marketing, and consumer habits.
Sto se mene licno tice Linus dakle nije rekao nista novo. Ja koristim Linux jos od 1998-e ali mi je apsolutno jasno da je za "obicne" korisnike Linux tek odnedavno postao (relativno) upotrebljiv. Kazem "relativno" zato sto jos uvek postoji masa popularnih Windows aplikacija koje jednostavno nisu portovane za Linux. Kada velike firme kao sto su Adobe, Macromedia i sl. pocnu da razvijaju svoje programe i za Linux, onda se moze racunati i na te "normalne" korisnike. Do tada ce svakako proci neko vreme, a koliko tacno vremena zavisice od rada velikih Linux igraca (IBM, SUSE, RedHat ...) kao i Microsofta.
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