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Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 71.131.187.69]
on September 21, 2008 02:18 AM
I will NOT be using KDE4 until somebody reviews it and says it's feature complete and stable. Based on what I'm hearing from comments like the above, that should be somewhere around 4.2 or 4.3, if not later.
I don't use "alpha" software released as production. Period. This whole notion of KDE4 being a "development release" is ruminant evacuation on the face of it. If that's what it is, you label it as such and you don't make it the default desktop. Period. You specifically state that it is not to be used as a production environment, and should only be used by Linux power users.
Someone mentioned the lack of business applications in FOSS. This is partly correct. It partly correct because I know a lot of companies, especially in Europe, are supporting FOSS developers, and also a lot of FOSS development work is going into enterprise infrastructure which needs to be in place before enterprise apps can be developed. But it is true that Linux will NOT make it onto the desktops of corporations - and thus not onto the desktops of home users - until 1) enterprise infrastructure is in place, and 2) applications that duplicate or exceed the functionality of equivalent Windows apps used every day in corporations are in place. And yes, FOSS developers who concentrate on yet another Web 2.0 framework or desktop widgets are not contributing. Well, I don't claim everybody has to work on one thing, that's fine. But we do need more Linux apps programmers to start looking at the industries they work in, and start figuring out how they can contribute to producing FOSS apps those industries can use.
Until somebody has a decent Linux FOSS/commercial drop-in replacement for Adobe PhotoShop (and GIMP is NOT it!)(and I'm talking PhotoShop CS3), Outlook, Microsoft Exchange Server (this is the closest to being solved), Adobe Premiere, ACT!, and QuickBooks, corporations are NOT going to replace Windows on the desktop. Period.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 71.131.187.69] on September 21, 2008 02:18 AMI don't use "alpha" software released as production. Period. This whole notion of KDE4 being a "development release" is ruminant evacuation on the face of it. If that's what it is, you label it as such and you don't make it the default desktop. Period. You specifically state that it is not to be used as a production environment, and should only be used by Linux power users.
Someone mentioned the lack of business applications in FOSS. This is partly correct. It partly correct because I know a lot of companies, especially in Europe, are supporting FOSS developers, and also a lot of FOSS development work is going into enterprise infrastructure which needs to be in place before enterprise apps can be developed. But it is true that Linux will NOT make it onto the desktops of corporations - and thus not onto the desktops of home users - until 1) enterprise infrastructure is in place, and 2) applications that duplicate or exceed the functionality of equivalent Windows apps used every day in corporations are in place. And yes, FOSS developers who concentrate on yet another Web 2.0 framework or desktop widgets are not contributing. Well, I don't claim everybody has to work on one thing, that's fine. But we do need more Linux apps programmers to start looking at the industries they work in, and start figuring out how they can contribute to producing FOSS apps those industries can use.
Until somebody has a decent Linux FOSS/commercial drop-in replacement for Adobe PhotoShop (and GIMP is NOT it!)(and I'm talking PhotoShop CS3), Outlook, Microsoft Exchange Server (this is the closest to being solved), Adobe Premiere, ACT!, and QuickBooks, corporations are NOT going to replace Windows on the desktop. Period.
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