Comment Re:erm (Score 2, Interesting) 151
innovation is not necessarily about building sth from scratch.
i think the fact that they were the first to build a simple usable platform viable for the broad desktop market currently dominated by ms is innovative enough by itself. some times the simplest things can be the most innovative.
and by desktop market i mean the hoards of pc's in the corporate world used by the hoards of white- (or blue- i was never able to remember which one is which :) workers in the US.
and by "platform" i mean not a distro in the sense that it is not targeted to the broad current hard-core "geek" linux user base. it is targeted for the average layman user who does not care about the
i am at odds from the overwhelming (short-sighted) negative response from the /. community.
all you linux-lovers and/or should be happy that microsoft is finally getting some heat in the desktop market.
i believe cobind comes right on time, after hp's lead in deploying linux on the desktop.
i can understand why most of you would not want to look at cobind. well, this distro is not targeted at you. come out from under that rock and you'll see that there's much more out there than your own little world.
this distro has a lot of potential and it will be up to the small team at cobind to make it happen. only time can show.
the current release is not wihtout shortcomings and naturally so - if you took the time to take a glimpse at the web site you will notice that this is version 0.1 - i would say that it is actually an impressive start!
p.s. as for the claim that vectorlinux has already done what cobind tries to do, i have only this to say (about their web site):
bad design + no screenshots + too much "geeky" information = extremely uncrear message
i think the fact that they were the first to build a simple usable platform viable for the broad desktop market currently dominated by ms is innovative enough by itself. some times the simplest things can be the most innovative.
and by desktop market i mean the hoards of pc's in the corporate world used by the hoards of white- (or blue- i was never able to remember which one is which
and by "platform" i mean not a distro in the sense that it is not targeted to the broad current hard-core "geek" linux user base. it is targeted for the average layman user who does not care about the
i am at odds from the overwhelming (short-sighted) negative response from the
all you linux-lovers and/or should be happy that microsoft is finally getting some heat in the desktop market.
i believe cobind comes right on time, after hp's lead in deploying linux on the desktop.
i can understand why most of you would not want to look at cobind. well, this distro is not targeted at you. come out from under that rock and you'll see that there's much more out there than your own little world.
this distro has a lot of potential and it will be up to the small team at cobind to make it happen. only time can show.
the current release is not wihtout shortcomings and naturally so - if you took the time to take a glimpse at the web site you will notice that this is version 0.1 - i would say that it is actually an impressive start!
p.s. as for the claim that vectorlinux has already done what cobind tries to do, i have only this to say (about their web site):
bad design + no screenshots + too much "geeky" information = extremely uncrear message
