Linux urged to be more user-friendly

Actually it has been gaining popularity almost since the linux kernel was started on. The proper wording would be something like "Linux has a long way to gay for being the majority operating system". Also a lot of people think they like Windows over Linux because Linux is different and they confuse this with usability or just don't want to learn how to use something different. Plus with all the Microsoft FUD going around they probly will have a bad perception of Linux before they even try it out so if you start to try Linux with a bad view on it to begin with it is less likely you will like it once you have tested it.

CptnObvious999: What he's saying is this: The Linux Kernel should be freely distributed. He's the keep note speaker for heaven's sake.

Quoting:Linux urged to be more user-friendly

I doubt that the professor knows what he is talking about, may be he hasn't used linux for a few years.

He should have said "Linux continues to make tremendous progress" instead. This is 2006 professor. Linux already surpassed Windows in ease of use in various aspects of user friendlyness. Installation from scratch can't be simpler than what it is using LiveCD. Management tools cover all aspects of areas the professor can think off. Application installation is a snap using Synaptic and tools like Yast. It is all point and click. Peripheral detection and device driver of being a problem is hardly mentioned any more. The features that the desktop GUI has that Windows doesn't is considered superior to Windows. So what is the professor referring to? The availability of applications? I can hardly attribute that to Linux.

Quoting:The developers should allow free distribution of kernel.

Any one knows what is he talking about? Is he serious? How could the developers make the kernel more free than it already is? Is he asking to remove the GPL so he doesn't have to contribute back? I say fat chance.

Abe: we're talking a keynote speaker now. Should we try to second guess the guy. I suggest we talk a politically correct position on this. Say nothing, do nothing and have nothing. Holy Cow. I mean, Holy mutton.

Sorry for the vitriolic article refuting the claim about India. I should have waited to read the story of the keynote speaker rather than walking on those skinny branches. He sort of did everyone in at LinuxAsia. I particularly like this part from the keynote speaker:

Citing an example, he said that the Government of West Bengal had recently decided to adopt Linux but majority of the people preferred to use the Windows operating system.

“This is an example that Linux is less user-friendlier compared to the popularly used Windows,” he said.

Do you think we can book him for LinuxWorld in April?

Tom, I guess some of the true colours are showing.

Quoting:Do you think we can book him for LinuxWorld in April?

You can book him, but can you guarantee his safety?

I can't.

If his speech is scheduled for the 1st, why not?

I can't be responsible for any one who would accept a keynote address and not know his subject. That's a little odd. It doesn't appear he prepared at all. That's behavior run amok.

I beg to differ, Tom. This guy is a perfect fit for a stellar key note speech delivered on the 1st of April in Asia and syndicated in real time over slashdot for a multicast heard around the word. Where necessary, and if and only if absolutely required there will be a brief explanation of the WWS* of the date April 1st holds.

Do we now all agree?

WWS* == World Wide Signicance(TM)

Yes.