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Linux Throat Choke vs. Fragmentation

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TORONTO -- Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Free Standards Group, is on a mission. He wants to prevent Linux from falling prey to the fragmentation fate that befell Unix.

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Comments (4)

slippery ·
Mr. Zemlin is right to be concerned about fragmentation. The LSB focuses on libraries and APIs, and the same reasoning applies to the desktop environment when talking about Linux on the desktop. I wrote an article about that this week:

http://linuxboxadmin/articles/gnomewon.php

While my opinion is somewhat controversial, I think the fragmentation between KDE/GNOME is holding Linux back on the desktop.
jimf ·
Well, It may be a bottleneck... But if you think that KDE users are about to give up KDE for Gnome, I think that pigs will fly first. I also noticed that Novell had been forced, by customer demand, to restore KDE as an option. I don't see this conflict going away any time soon.
grouch ·
What's holding Linux back on the desktop is influence. It's doing fine everywhere except in the U.S. Why is that?
jimf ·
IMO the corporate Linux Distros forcing Gnome is a major mistake. Just creates a lot of FUD.

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