On 05/06/2014 06:12 AM, BillW50 wrote:


Sure, it is the OS that is crazier than a three-ring circus with 306
distros and counting. The Linux community doesn't believe in
standardization either. Because there wouldn't be 300+ distros if they
did. And it is very tough to write applications that would run on 300+
distros. So you end up with many lame basic applications like Firefox,
Thunderbird, LibreOffice, VLC, etc. Hell Android, iOS, Widesktop environmentndows RT, Palm
OS, etc can do that stuff too. So I've never found one killer app for
Linux in all of these years.

Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Kingston 120GB SSD - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP2




You only have to write for a Linux desktop environment such as KDE,
Gnome. Then a distribution that uses that desktop environment can use
it. There is no reason to try to think you have to write for a specific
distribution. The Linux kernel Is written so that a user can customize
it easily for his/her needs or wants. Such as Cern, Pixar, Nasa, me,
just to name a few. And it remains very stable. Unlike MS which will not
let you see their code, and is not as stable.
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Caver1