Comments on: Novell hopes its next desktop will leapfrog Windows

Company says its next Linux desktop will be more usable than desktop products anywhere else on the market.

[ss_Whiplash]

Comical

I think this guy Mancusi-Ungaro is hilarious. He's almost as good as that guy who was the spokesman for Iraq. Here he is saying that this new desktop is going to put them way ahead of everyone else... and then he presents the fantastically futuristic feature set that will do it: Excel Macros, animated windows, and desktop search. WOAH!!! SAY IT'S NOT SO!!! What??? There's more?? Yep, "full support for all standard network and printing protocols".... WOW!

You know, this is why Linux fails. When the ability to network and print are listed as advanced features, you know your OS is out of touch.

[Johnny Mnemonic]

The point is...

To dumb down the press release for Windows biggots
like yourself. If he spoke about all the OpenGL
enhancements to the X-Windows foundation people
like yourself would be unable to concieve of what
that actually means. He simply relates the press
release to Microsoft's simplistic enhancements to
its latest release Vista. If you want detail, go
to their web site as well as the X.org website to
see what they have been doing.

[Seaspray0]

if it's new, then it's news

If these features were absent from previous versions, then it's worth noting them as new features. It's no different than brand-x soap putting "new and improved" on their box to market the cleaning abilities even if brand-y has already done it. If I use brand-y, I might consider using brand-x if I knew it would do the things brand-y does that I like.

I use windows but I still like to know I have alternatives and what they do. Every operating system has different features just like automobiles. Just because someone likes a particular model doesn't give them the right to insult someone who prefers another. You see, what is important to you in deciding what to get may not be the same reasons someone else bases their decisions on. I just wish that the zelots who post here would respect that.

[David Arbogast]

OH great....

More dependencies to worry about....

Why are networking and printing libraries part of the GUI anyhow???

Now Linux users will have to have 3 different desktop managers installed in order to ensure availability of all library dependencies.....

Not that the UI implementation in Linux isn't a major factor holding back the system's growth... but three incompatible user interface specifications is just crazy.

[Johnny Mnemonic]

You are extremely uninformed

What dependencies? Are you talking about X-Windows
which are standard across all distributions?
NO printer libraries are apart of the GUI. Where
did you get that? There is CUPS which provides a
portable printing layer for UNIX or Linux based
operating systems. Have you ever used Linux? I am
beginning to wonder if you are one of those
uninformed MS trolls that are paid to spread
dis-information about Linux. What is your agenda?

[rklrkl]

Hope this isn't like SuSE 10.1 betas

If SuSE 10.1 beta 6 is anything to go by, then I hope this new Novell desktop improves on it when it comes out (is it just me or are Novell employing the classic MS tactic of talking about future OS releases that are many months away?). I found the SuSE beta to be quite buggy, particularly in the area of, yes, a brand new online updater that bizarrely runs a localhost server on port 3000 and was ludicrously flaky for me.

[UntoldDreams]

Good for Novell!

Despite what negative attitude is being posted this will be a valid attempt to tame the Linux desktop.

** Linux is good for everyone (with the possible exception of M$ shareholders)

I hope they don't overhype the reality though... Open source is evolutionary rather than revolutionary...

Dumb liberal mantra

Pro Choice--talk about boring!!

Dumb liberal mantra

Pro Choice--talk about boring!!

[Mendz]

Novell should hope indeed...

... because they can never be sure. After seeing their screenshots... not better. Tsk, tsk, tsk...


:-p

[Gasaraki]

Powerful Stuff!

"When users minimize windows to the panel at the bottom of the screen they will see it move there rather than vanish, so users are more aware of where they have put something,"

Good job! No other operating system has this ability. *rolls eyes*

[SteveH]

RE: Powerful Stuff ! (you're an MS Shill right?)

I use Windows XP myself most of the time. But I have downloaded and checked out live versions of Linux and such, and I can tell you that the KDE Desktop in Linux (and I'm sure gnome, although been a long time since I checked that one out) have been minimizing to the taskbar for a long time, just like it does in windows. So I take it from this article that instead of just vanishing from the screen it moves there and minimizes - the intention being to show you where it's going, to simplify the desktop even more. Probably like for MCSE's and such. Hehe. Have you ever even looked at Linux to see what you're talking about before you make comments about it? By the way, what does Micro$oft pay to troll in forums these days? Might do it myself if it's decent money. Hehe. Just joking, would never Troll for them. *rolls eyes right back at ya*

Bells and whistles- what really matters is....

That this desktop will out of the box authenticate as an active directory client and an edirectory client. And if all you windows diehards take note you'd have to spend approximately a grand or more on the windows packages to even have HALF of the capabilities this desktop comes with out of the box. Business capabilities- low cost subcsription management, and all the tools 95% of desktop users would ever need at a 10th of the price of a MS box. This will make serious headway in the business world.

Oh yea- I forgot to mention that every machine out there more than 1-1 & 1/2 years old will need to be upgraded or replaced to run the next version of windows. You know- the one we may see in 2007