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For servers it may be great. For the desktop, it's definitely not ready for prime time. Perhaps the late, late, late show, for those with nothing better to do with their time.

... Or for saavy users who are willing to spend the time to configure their boxes exactly the way they want them. But since most people could care less about their choice of OS, Linux on the desktop will remain a niche market for a long time.

But since most people could care less about their choice of OS

There is hope for you yet! :)

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... Or for saavy users who are willing to spend the time to configure their boxes exactly the way they want them.

Hmmm, I like to think of myself as savvy, but ??

Lessee, I can program in X86 assembler. I wrote the programming we used to translate our company data from one ERP system to another after our consultant said it couldn't be done and advised hiring temporaries to fat finger in all the data.

Hey, I'm no Ralf Brown, by a long shot, but neither am I ignorant.

But Linux is NOT easy to configure. DOS looks very friendly by comparison, and it was the reason people switched to Windows and Plug-n-Play.

How come Linux can't handle simple video modes? You don't need to know chipset, horizontal and vertical synch rates, ad nauseum, to set video modes on a PC. Move one number to a register, call an interrupt, and you're off to the races. But not under X-Windows. They want more system detail than the long form census, and STILL hose up one of the most basic and critical aspects of a computer - operating the monitor.

That's utter silliness. In the desktop market against Microsoft, they're coming to a nuclear war armed with a pea-shooter.