KDE OS - Why not?

[Orville Bennett]

On Jan 4, 2007, at 8:55 AM, marco marinuzzo wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm a Linux professional, managing 50 production servers for a mid- 
> size company. When I work on the server side is
>
> all ok, but when I try to use a desktop Linux, I give up.
> I would like to treat here about THE BIG PROBLEM:
>
> - the number of different Linux flavours and the binary  
> incompatibility from one to another (and from one release to
If you choose a "linux flavour" you don't have to worry about the  
binary incompatibility from distro to distro until the next major  
release.
If you want binary compatibility from incremental release to  
incremental release (Mac OS X.x -> X.y) it is already here.  Even for  
distributions which  break binary compatibility, they provide the  
means to migrate to the updated version as well as providing  
compatibility libraries for older software.
>
> the next one).
>
> So,
>
> - I can't install software if I'm not a geek (I'm a geek and I  
> don't like to install software on Linux)
> - Software houses are coding only on compatible platform.
>
> No choice of software, a nightmare to install it.
No choice of software? Maybe you mean in reference to a specific  
field, but desktop software is plagued by choice :-)

Also, software is not a nightmare to install if you have chosen a  
distribution with provides packages and a decent package manager.
CAUTION: The following is my opinion and is no way authoritative.
Fedora/Redhat have aweful package management in my opinion. This,  
however, was a few years ago. Maybe, hopefully, it has gotten better  
since. The other main players in the desktop market Mandriva, Suse,  
Ubuntu and it's many legitimate (and illegitimate) children have good  
to decent package management that will not have you wanting to rip  
your eyeballs out of their sockets.

It would seem to me then, that you are either not using a desktop  
distribution with proper package management, or you are not using a  
desktop distribution at all. Given the fact that you say when you  
"work on  the server side is all ok" I suspect the latter.  If such  
is the case, I would suggest looking at testing out various desktop  
distributions and seeing which one is most suitable for the needs of  
your users.
You will note I left gentoo and other distributions off my list. The  
reason I leave as an exercise for the reader to discern.
>
> In my opinion the solution is:
>
> KDE OS
>
> 1) with long term releases (2,3 years)
> 2) binary compatibility from one release to the next one
Sooo you want ubuntu 6.10 LTS or Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop... ?
It seems to me, that you are asking for things which are already here.
> 3) a drag and drop mac osx style installer
>
> Everyone will be able to install any of the million programs that  
> will be available from all the software houses.
Like we have now with big software repositories?
> THE BIG PROBLEM will be solved.
> All the other problems are only some little feature missing here  
> and there.
Ah, polish. (not the nationality mind you). Then instead of people  
complaining about there needing to be one more linux distribution,  
we'll probably instead have people complaining about there needing to  
be one more *polished* linux distribution.
The BIG PROBLEM will be solved when people attempt to help out the  
projects they have complaints about by donating of their time, skills  
or other resources (money?). That however, will happen on a cold day  
in hell. The temperature will actually 273.16 degrees Kelvin for  
those wondering.

>
> The Linux Desktop will be KDE OS
>
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Good day good sir, and God bless.