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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Release schedule
From:       "Jos Poortvliet" <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-10-27 17:19:45
Message-ID: 5c77e14b0710271019n2a119d0ej80cc265af3eb296f () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 10/27/07, Boudewijn Rempt <boud@valdyas.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 27 October 2007, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > On 10/27/07, Boudewijn Rempt <boud@valdyas.org> wrote:
> > > The way KOffice is shaping up right now, the natural release date is Q1
> > > 2008. That coincides with the Kubuntu 8.04 release. This is a good time
> > > to synchronize KOffice releases the release schedule from the largest
> > > Linux Desktop distribution.
> >
> > It's not like I oppose this (and I wouldn't have a say anyway, of
> > course), but is Kubuntu really the largest Linux Desktop Distro? I'd
> > say OpenSuse probably is larger... Either way, OpenSuse and Fedora
> > have pretty close release schedules, so this most likely would work
> > for them as well.
>
> Well, based on looking at what KDE developers have on their laptops, and the
> (unscientific) numbers from various web polls, news stories and all that, I
> am quite ready to believe the claims that are regularly made that *buntu by
> now has about 50% of the desktop market. And I expect it to reach seventy or
> even eight percent end of 2008.
>
> Actually, if I want to prevent another desktop monopoly, I should go back to
> Slackware now...

Point is that these numbers are mostly based on very vocal users. Take
Mandriva - rolling out millions of desktops each year (really!). I
don't think Ubuntu does half of that... Corporate users often use
Novell linux desktop or OpenSuse, they know novell. And Red Hat is
also awfully popular. Really, I think it's mostly marketing and noise.
Like everyone believes Gnome has 70% of the desktop and KDE is
impossible to use for anyone but the 1% most experienced
computerusers; of course, Qt is non-free software. Reality is
different.

Anyway, it doesn't matter, of course. Kubuntu is a good distro, Riddel
rocks - so working with them is fine by me. Just don't forget it's
still Suse which sponsors most KDE developers ;-)


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