20 January 2007
Vista is Over-Hyped
Along with Novell's Vista and Linux comparison, earlier this week Linus Torvalds made statements at the opening of linux.conf.au in Australia about Vista being 'over-hyped'.
Linus doesn't see Vista as something completely new and although Vista's interface may look completely different, the fundamentals of the Windows OS haven't changed much. He also sees Vista as a possible advantage for Linux. As a result of the high system requirements for Vista, he thinks users will use Linux as an option on machines that would not run Vista as Linux will run very well on most modern computers.
This being said he still doesn't expect a large growth this year in the number of Linux users. The number of people used to using other operating systems are very large and they are not really interested in learning another OS. He does believe Linux has many opportunities in the embedded market though.
While Novell's site pushes the advantages of Linux (especially SLED) over Vista, Linus talks about the areas where the Linux community needs to focus to get more users and in many ways provides a strategy for the year for the OSS and Linux software communities.
Linus doesn't see Vista as something completely new and although Vista's interface may look completely different, the fundamentals of the Windows OS haven't changed much. He also sees Vista as a possible advantage for Linux. As a result of the high system requirements for Vista, he thinks users will use Linux as an option on machines that would not run Vista as Linux will run very well on most modern computers.
This being said he still doesn't expect a large growth this year in the number of Linux users. The number of people used to using other operating systems are very large and they are not really interested in learning another OS. He does believe Linux has many opportunities in the embedded market though.
While Novell's site pushes the advantages of Linux (especially SLED) over Vista, Linus talks about the areas where the Linux community needs to focus to get more users and in many ways provides a strategy for the year for the OSS and Linux software communities.
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