Comments on: 10,000 bugs away from World Domination

By: Tadashi

Tadashi — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:10:52 +0000

Linux is not ready for desktops, Ubuntu is not ready for desktops. Windows works on desktops because hw and sw manufacturers supports it, but not “by default” in the way people asks Linux to work, so Windows is also not ready for desktops. Right now Ubuntu needs a lot of things, first of all needs more beautines (people don’t see the WoW factor with it), needs more hardware support by default (I mean automatically configure wireless, sd cards, … even if drivers are binaries/illegal), needs more software (basic software such as good MSN client with video-voice, a clone of iLife, Adobe applications, …). In other words, Ubuntu needs the help of everyone to go on. If people installs Ubuntu and vendors perceive it as a market player, they will develop drivers and applications. If Ubuntu is used in business, Canonical and other brands will receive money, and more developers will work on it (also fixing bugs). Believe me, is very easy to switch to Ubuntu, and the benefits are more than the things to miss from Windows. I think, the most part of people still stays with Windows because they are lazy to change, because in some way they are illiterates and doesn’t know about Linux (someone should start getting money to put Linux commercials on TV and stores). And over all the things, people developing FLOSS should start organizing together, there’s no sense on having three different Office applications developing, a hundred number of IM clients (and no one of them good enough), … I mean, variety is good (Gnome vs KDE, SUSE vs Red Hat, …) but sometimes, some projects should benefit from others if people just decides to do it together, and Linux is the great example of this because there aren’t two different kernels (for example).

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da [k] spirit — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:48:07 +0000

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By: Linux Unix » 10,000 bugs to World Domination

Linux Unix » 10,000 bugs to World Domination — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:40:51 +0000

[...] After leaving Microsoft a year ago and spending 1 year with Linux I â��ve gained tremendous respect for the Open Source world as a whole but more than that, had an epiphany that Linux on the desktop is 99.999% ready to go. How much needs to be done? My estimate is that Ubuntu needs on the order of 10,000 bugs to be fixed to get that last .001%…read more | digg story [...]

By: Balaji’s Blog » links for 2006-04-12

Balaji’s Blog » links for 2006-04-12 — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:52:54 +0000

[...] » 10,000 bugs away from World Domination There are a combined total of 10000 listed bugs for various modules of Linux – is that what stands between Linux and the average desktop.. i don’t think so. What stands between Linux and the average desktop is MS-OFFICE! (tags: linux adoption) [...]

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Do What Vinci Will Do — Tue, 02 May 2006 08:17:01 +0000

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By: airshipjones

airshipjones — Mon, 01 May 2006 04:41:55 +0000

I think that what is holding back Linux, in just about all its various distros, is the lack of enterprise management tools. As far as I know, the only thing close to this is Zenworks, whihc was ported over for SuSE by Novell. Without tools to make the Linux desktops easy to manage accross and enterprise, few businesses can afford to spend the time to set-up each machine and do all the updates, mods, and such. And while this doesn’t stop the average home user from using Linux, they don’t get exposed at work, which is where most average users get their primary training with the OS and software.

By: steve

steve — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:56:37 +0000

For me the one things that stops me getting rid of Windows and installing windows is: games! If the latest commercial games were available for linux, I would have have been using Linux exclusively for years now.
I have heard that Sony’s PS3 will run linux. Games + PC functions in one unit — this could be the best hope yet for linux, it could remove a key reason holding people to Windows.

By: Moses

Moses — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:52:52 +0000

Hi dude,
please try Suse enterprise and am sure you will halve your queries.

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:05:27 +0000

Nice post, very to the point.

The nice thing about Ubuntu is that they are making a *serious* effort to make their distro usable by beginners. I’ve been freely recommending Ubuntu to one class of user: people who aren’t geeks but who know what they want to do with a computer, and are sick to death of Windows’ flakiness. They take to Ubuntu very enthusiastically indeed.

The last thing keeping a lot of people on Windows isn’t the OS or major apps – it’s the million tiny apps written five or ten years ago, where you won’t even *find* the programmer, let alone get them to open or port the app. And those are running increasingly well under Wine, which I am amazed to find feels like a “shaky but interesting beta” rather than a horrible alpha. Try random obscure apps under Wine 0.9.11 – that bear dances amazingly well.

Now. Do you have a way to get Ubuntu Live CDs to half the Microsoft developer teams? :-D

By: yeah

yeah — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:10:19 +0000

i wish more ms guys can investigate linux,open source world! the world should be this.

By: Undead_bxg

Undead_bxg — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:18:52 +0000

向你的方向去吧，你自由软要这样的精神。我何常不是这样做呢，技术是我们的唯一！！！！

By: JP

JP — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:01:55 +0000

Good article, but I must disagree with just one point. Ubuntu may not have "people" that look out for a customers interest since it's business model is not for profit, however at Novell we are looking out for our customers (and shareholders) by doing just what you state is not being done. is doing just that. We are not only doing case studies with various users, but also finding and fixing the UI type bugs that annoy the people that are "resistant to change". SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 will be the culmination of this effort and already is blowing the minds of the "hard to convert".

By: fromchina

fromchina — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:07:50 +0000

程序员喜欢的往往不是普通人所喜欢的！普通人并不研究010101010101代表什么东西，也不在乎VI有多么的好用！因为计算机对他们来说只是工具，而不痴迷于她的技术！

By: fromchina

fromchina — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:04:46 +0000

It is impossible! I think you should think it carefully before saying out! If not ,you are very naive! Linux is very good but it is not based on most people! 说话不是用嘴的！

By: zelsa

zelsa — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:47:50 +0000

典型的离职牢骚。