The user doesn’t want to have 3 different ways of accessing their SMB service. The user doesn’t want to contend with 2 copeting desktops with 2 different desktop menu locations and configuration methods. The average user wants an easy to use operating system that is stable, reliable and most of all, reasonably priced. Providing 300 desktops, 40 editors and 4 different compilers certainly isn’t going to turn the average user on. They need to ask themselves, what are the CORE requitements of a user. It doesn’t work on paper or in real life.

The reason why they can’t deliver a “polished solution” is because they’re trying to be everything to everyone. They should make the divide between the OS, X and KDE so small that when they user sees teh desktop, they see the whole operating system as one rather than a badly put together kitset. Then, they should push the envelop in terms of usability and speed. Regarding the “engineering” side of it, the need to first decide what desktop they are going to focus on, IMHO, they should go with KDE. Apparently it will be like a swiss army knife and the admin will not necessarily have to use the Real format for streaming.Īs for licensing the real codec, there is nothing stopping anyone from creating a nice GTK2 front end to Real Player, the problem is, no one can be bothered starting a project. Real Media licensed the CODECs off Microsoft a while back for their “Helix Server” they’re creating. RE: John Blink (IP: -.wc.)Īlso I don’t think they can legally get in trouble for this, because didn’t create support for formats such as WMV, WMA, MOV (Sorenson), in a clean room environment.

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