[OT] Market Share

Viktoras Didziulis viktoras at ekoinf.net
Wed Jul 5 15:23:55 EDT 2006


And that's why some of us are not so eager to upgrade from Rev Studio 2.6.1
which is the last version capable to produce standalones for all the main
OSes including Linux. From my personal experience there are more Linux users
than those of MacOS at least in research & development sector in Europe. And
many use dual boot Linux/Windows systems, not to say that in a distributed
computing sector Linux rules. In my area I still was not able to find anyone
with MacOS to test some apps (so I will need to buy one Apple, but maybe
later as it is so expensive...). Actually the Windows/Linux/MacOS share in
European Universities, Institutes and research companies is something like
100x10x1. So that's what our students are used to... 
 
Viktoras 
 
-------Original Message------- 
 
From: Richmond Mathewson 
Date: 07/05/06 10:40:57 
To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com 
Subject: [OT] Market Share 
 
Interesting Discussion . . . 
 
As a longtime, mainly irrational, fan of Apple computers (to a large extent
based on the belief that Microsoft OS's are inferior) I have had the
opportunity for the last year or so to work with a number of 'old' PCs
running Ubuntu Linux. This Debian variant has allowed me to set up a
teaching operation using old Pentium 3s at minimal cost - and has cut
maintenance time to almost zero. 
 
I have "gone funny" and am now running Ubuntu 6.06 on the second partition
of my early model (PPC) Mac-Mini. 
 
What I really enjoy about Ubuntu Linux (and, even more about XUBUNTU - the
Ubuntu variant that sports the XFCE desktop) is: 
 
1. The interface is extremely consistent.[Mac OS X.4 is "all over the place"
and Windows XP looks like my Grandmother dressed up in teenage clothes
(sorry Granny)]. 
 
2. When something crashes (and that is rare) it does not lock up the whole
machine and demand 20 minutes while the whole shebang is restarted and its
ego is massaged. 
 
As of now, I can honestly say that I am not really anti either Microsoft or
Apple - but hope that the developing desktop Linuxes will serve to stimulate
both the commercial companies to sort a lot of things out. 
 
And, while I am here and on topic . . . 
 
I know that the good folks at RR treat Linux as 'the third force' (and not
very forceful at that); but it does seem a pity that RR for Linux lags
behind (with some of its capabilities) RR for the 2 dominant commercial OS
families. 
 
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson 
 
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"Philosophical problems are confusions arising owing to the fluidity of
meanings users attach to words and phrases." 
Mathewson, 2006 
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