…To date, Novell has been the primary “upstream” contributor to the Linux desktop, though Red Hat and others have also been involved. Unfortunately, these participants have primarily been concerned with the enterprise Linux desktop, which is more utilitarian in its ambition than what I suspect Shuttleworth has in mind…For desktop Linux to succeed, it must become much more enjoyable to use. People must want to use it. Shuttleworth understands this. This is the right step for Canonical. Some open-source developers see aesthetic beauty as a nice complement to the Linux desktop. It’s not. It is core, at least if the Linux desktop is to have a prayer of going mainstream.
It’s the extremely rare person that wants to go to the office and sit in a colorless cubicle with no pictures or decorations. How many Windows users do you know that keep the default Windows wallpaper on their office machines? Human nature is that we want creature comforts, bells and whistles, and to have fun…even in the enterprise.
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Arrgh I wish, at my old job our machines were locked down including the
company logo as the background. At least I could use vpc in full screen
mode which is where I spent 98% of the time
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 1 day 0:36, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.06
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12
Yup, and they still managed to propagate virus… and they hid in a
timezone 2 hours behind us was so much fun at 8:00am when things went
haywire for 600+ users…
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 1 day 1:56, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.15, 0.17
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12
