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From: Whirled.Peas on 10 Apr 2010 23:01 On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:18:12 -0400, Mark Warner wrote: > Just curious. How many here use desktop Linux on a regular basis? > Doesn't need to be your primary platform, but use it enough to consider > yourself a "user". Linux and Solaris for more years than I wish to count. -- If you try, you can envision peas on earth.
From: Whirled.Peas on 10 Apr 2010 23:04 On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:30:44 +0000, Bear Bottoms wrote: > The fact is Mark that since 1991, Linux has not even garnered a solid 1% > of the market share. That is a failure magnificant. I don't want to participate in some sort of argument, but where is it written that "Linux has a goal" of desktop domination? It will never achieve it, and I am a Linux user. Where Linux will achieve a majority of market share is in handheld devices. -- If you try, you can envision peas on earth.
From: Dave on 10 Apr 2010 23:22 On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:18:12 -0400, Mark Warner wrote: > Just curious. How many here use desktop Linux on a regular basis? > Doesn't need to be your primary platform, but use it enough to consider > yourself a "user". Primary platform here,and converted both of my nieces to PCLOS after cleaning their infested laptops one too many times. Dave -- Registered Linux user # 444770
From: Gordon Darling on 11 Apr 2010 04:34 On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 03:01:54 +0000, Whirled.Peas wrote: > On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:18:12 -0400, Mark Warner wrote: > >> Just curious. How many here use desktop Linux on a regular basis? >> Doesn't need to be your primary platform, but use it enough to consider >> yourself a "user". > > Linux and Solaris for more years than I wish to count. Linux since Red Hat rhl-4.2 now running Mandriva. Have used both Solaris and BSD. Win 2K, Win XP, Win 7 inside virtual machines using VirtualBox for support reasons. I haven't run any version of Windows on "bare metal" for a very long time. Regards Gordon -- ox·y·mo·ron n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra or ox·y·mo·rons A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in Microsoft Security, Microsoft Help and Microsoft Works.
From: Gary R. Schmidt on 11 Apr 2010 07:25
Mark Warner wrote: > > Just curious. How many here use desktop Linux on a regular basis? > Doesn't need to be your primary platform, but use it enough to consider > yourself a "user". > Well, Solaris and HP-UX and AIX are still in my "desktop" environment, but so is Linux, and several variants. Cheers, Gary B-) |