Re: tlug: MSNBC: MS watching Linux

[Howard Abbey <habbey@example.com>]

Darren Cook passed along from http://www.msnbc.com/news/175558.asp :
> ---------------
>   A standard interface. ...
> At least one firm has already built a Win95 clone.
> Rather itfs the problem of getting the fiercely
> independent Linuxites to agree to a single
> standard. Remember, the core community is made up
> of Unix geeks who think graphical interfaces are
> for sissies.
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As has been mentioned, from the rest of the article, it definitely
sounds
like they're talking of Fvwm95

My question / amazement is that the the title of the article is 'How
Linux
could kill WinNT, and the quoted paragraph is supposedly one of the
things 
Linux needs to do so.  So, to all you sysadmin's out there, why is a 
"standard" GUI so important?  To be more exact, why is one required
fairly 
configurable window manager (Win95 taskbar, desktop & explorer) better
than
multiple highly configurable window managers?  I realize that if you
could 
freeze every user's screen so nothing could be changed it would make
technical
support a lot easier.  But options for that exist on both Win 95 &
Linux.  The
standard release of either, however, let's you change most anything you
want.
Any other reasons anyone can think of?

Or course if they're talking program compatibilty issues, (which is
hinted at in the last line of the article talking of a compatibility
logo) it's perfectly understandable.


later,
Howard
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