Re:not stable ? (Score 1)

Better is better that sooner -- of course! But we are in rush. M$ will release longhorn in a couple of years and osx will evolve in a couple of years too, maybe resolving many of the issues you have mentioned. I don't think that M$ will do a revolution -- xp is too crappy to fix it without a from ground up rewrite :) but linux must be ready to this to do a serious break-in on the desktop systems. Monopoly is very hard to break, but linux have the weapons to do it. In my personal opinion osx and macs will remain a system for a small elite -- not for the masses. Linux can be for the masses but need to be simpler. You're right when you say that FC is great, but in my opinion the change from redhat to fedora core left users and potential users a bit confused (many people doesn't know that FC is an evolution of RH) this fact mustn't be repeated! As I said in my other replies I think that Linux (and GNOME) hackers must look at other OSs to take some inspirations. I've understood the anger in your first post (simply I have never posted my temper about windoze :) ) and my reply wants only to explain you some of the features I hope to see in Tux/GNOME one day, remembering that a feature that linux "clones" simply becomes better: for example think about the linux kernel modules: they give you the advantages of a monolithic kernel with the flexibility of a microkernel -- no other os got this before linux... but this is a single example taken from thousands of other. The thing that linux really misses is fast support for new hardware, bacause of the obtusity of hardware vendors that releases drivers just for the "king of the crap", most of the times we need a good hacker that have to do an enormous work to make it work -- reverse engeneer the hardware to make a favor to the vendor: it's ridiculous! This situation is better in the last years: in a little bit of cases thanks to hardware vendors (like nv and ati), but in all others thanks to the great hackers we have. For example most of the wlan cards today runs on linux thanks to the ndiswrapper driver that emulate the ndis subsystem under linux, but NO native support for now: like as linux is the last wheel of the wagon! Some others SELL, oh my god, SELL DRIVERS for THEIR hardware... it's a scandal! If this situation will change... then... there wouldn't be so many obstacles to linux diffusion. [ :) Sry 4 my english :) ]