Ubuntu keeps trying
I’ll give the Ubuntu developers credit, they keep plugging away. The latest version is out and Adrian Kingsley-Hughes says:
Ubuntu 7.10 is one sweet OS.
If they can ever get major manufacturers to start giving more than token support, they might make some progress with the consumer. However, HP has no Linux machine and Dell’s line is almost like an afterthought. Linux just hasn’t entered the average PC user’s consciousness. At the Wall Street Journal, Lee Gomes writes:
Even though Linux is easier than ever to use, the dream of many Linux buffs of it replacing Windows as the desktop mainstay is, at best, stalled, and at worst, fading. While exact numbers are hard to come by, one survey has desktop Linux users barely scraping a single percentage point of the market share.
Go into a store like Best Buy and see how many Linux machines you can find. The stark fact that the Linux fans have to face is that not only is the 800 pound Microsoft gorilla in the way but the manufacturers and the vendors have a big vested interest in Windows machines. The obstacles are daunting. Whether Linux is an excellent operating system is not the point. It’s marketing. marketing, marketing.
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