Re:Wow, and accurate assessment! (Score 1)

I'd say that this sounds more like a company policy issue more than a problem with the number of Linux Distros. If you're company wanted to have a standard desktop solution for it's employees, it would mandate which distro and desktop environment you were to use. The ability to have options in your operating envrionment, be it CLI or GUI (KDE; Gnome; etc.) is one of the leading 'features' of Linux that most people the use Linux, actually enjoy. If you walk into a company that uses a standard MS desktop, you can bet that they don't have users running things from an MS-DOS command line, because that's not what the company has deemed as their standard. All of the 'popular' Linux distros available today make fine desktop workstation operating systems. And the standardization that you are bringing up, isn't really even to blame on the OS itself, it's all in the desktop envrionment that you have chosen to run on it. Load up Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Workstation, Mandriva, Debian, or whatever you choose on three machines sitting next to each other. Boot them all into an X server with Gnome as the desktop environment and then tell me how different they are. For the most part (with exception of menu items and backgrounds, and possibly some OS specific startup widget...nothing that you won't find on WinXP boxes from different OEM distributers) they are going to be the same. So where does the responsibility lie, to bring standardized Linux to corporate desktops? I say, that falls on the corporations that are using Linux as desktops, just as it has with corporations using Windows for years. Not on the people developing the OSes and provided the consumers with more than ample choices.