[TriLUG] Switching distros based on marketing, rumor, FUD -- or based on technical merit?

[James Manning]

> is not giving up on making the Linux desktop one of the finest as well, 

not really in the spirit of this thread, but I never really get this,
but maybe I'm missing something, and am looking for some enlightenment.

What exactly constitutes the Linux desktop?

I've seen some threads where it seems to refer to the various
graphical apps, like GNOME/KDE/XFree86/OOo/Mozilla/etc. - that always
seems confusing, because the apps lumped in are never ones particular
to Linux, or even Unix.

What is the Linux desktop?

As an aside, I'd love to see a fork of the Hurd kernel for the sole
purpose of accepting Windows 2000 drivers.  That's one nice thing - MS
can change all the API's they want, but they're still somewhat
beholden to hardware manuf. and they have to keep driver DDK's and
their API's pretty stable.  Much like, really, the CUPS solution at
the printer-driver level, just more ambitious.  After all, if WINE can
do the user-land API coverage (*much* more massive than the kernel
API), a kernel should be able to handle the driver API.

How cool would that be?  A Linux-like system where you just use the
win2k drivers off the various manuf sites.

Yeah, it won't happen, for lots of ideological reasons (and various
technical ones), but I can dream.
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