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Linux is becoming such a craze nowadays that not even a single day passes without one or other distribution releasing a new version. But why is it failing so miserably in the desktop arena. The answer lies in three reasons.1. The plethora of distributions - Redhat,Debian,Ubuntu,Suse,Gentoo,Knoppix - everbody and his uncle is coming out with new ones.2. The lack of backward compatibility - I had Redhat 7.3 running. I upgraded to Redhat 9. Many applications had to be recompiled. You ask my mom to recompile applications - She will throw out Linux and take Windows anyday. She is not concerned more about usability than about security. Security is required but not at the expense of usability for most users.3. To add a new hardware or install a new software, you need to be a geek. In most cases, to configure new hardware such as adsl modems, you have to edit configuration files manually. Not what home users want to do. Even the people who come and install the stuff are no aware about Linux. Infact once I had to educate the tech support fellow on how to configure something in Linux. OK the tech support was not good. Still it speaks a lot about Linux.Until these factors are resolved, there is no way anybody can even think about Linux competing with Windows for the desktop market. Only in dreams.

Any tool is only as good as the user using it. Same is true in the case of GDS.Youy have the option to stop google from sending your data out.So choose that option. And dont cry about privacy.

I did not get it.Are you in favor of optimizing or are you against ?As far as I am concerned, irrespective of the penetration of broadband, there is always quite a good percentage of people who use dialup. If not in the US in the pther parts of the world. So there is no argument at all - Web optimization is a must - whether it is graphics or the rest of the page.The main point to note here is this - You are wasting the money of the person who is visiting your webpage if you cram it with megabytes of data ( The longer it takes for your page to load - the higher the charges. So with the bandwidth). And that strategy is bound to fail.

i am talking about ordinary application development.i can develop a complete linux application by only knowing c++.similarly i can create a complete windows application only by knowing visual basic.i am not talking about complex application using java with c++ and all that.Java is more than good for doing any job without dragging c++ into it.

I just saw a topic named Life before Google. In this context I just thought that we can take a look at what google is aiming for. OK their main aim is to make all the information on the planet available to you in searchable form. But if you are closely following google - the applications they are developing in Google labs, the companies they are buying out - you can see a trendGoogle Spreadsheets, Calendar, WritelyNow compare this with Microsoft Excel, Outlook,Word,Google has an internet Office suite ready. The only thing left is to aggressively market it. And also make an offline version available for these applications. A version that can run on your intranet. No hassles such as individual licenses for Office, Windows etc. Use Linux with Firefox. The Office suite will stay on a server in the network. Brilliant.After that God help Microsoft.

Hi,I just wanted to share some concerns that I have as a newbie in the website development area.The first thing that I notice is that there is a lot of technology with fancy acronyms. AJAX,CSS,HTML,PHP,Javascript,MySQL,Apache - You need to learn a lot of new things if you want to design a functional and attractive website. But if you want to develop application software, you just need to learn a language - thats it. Any one language is sufficient for you to develop a full featured application - VC++, C++, Qt, Java or any other language depending on the platform.Why can't a simpler solution be possible for website development as well. How can we reduce the complexity of developing websites. I an talking from the view point of a lone programmer who wants to develop a website.Any views on this ? Notice from jlhaslip: please do not "sign-off your posts. Use the signature via your user profile, thanks.