Sergei Mutovkin’s Rumbling Mumbling

The results of the Linux Foundation Client Survey were published a few days ago, but I’ve just discovered them.

The results are amazing. Interesting bits are that Ubuntu/Debian distribution lead distribution of choice in any category. I’m sorry for Fedora and OpenSuSe guys. For some reason a lot of people want Photoshop ported to Linux, my question would be if those people plan to legally purchase it for almost $1K USD. I don’t use Photoshop myself, but I would have wanted other image editors ported to Linux much more, for example Corel’s PaintShop Pro, which costs $69 from time to time in our local electronics stores. A funny bit part is that quite a few people want Skype for Linux, I don’t know what they mean, probably those who responded live under the rock or use distributions from three years ago, but there is a very nice Qt4 based Skype client for Linux with amazing Video and Audio support…. My wish is for it to be a 64bit application, but I don’t think this will happen. Others also wanted some anti-virus packages ported, while it is understandable that they can be used to check sanity on Samba shares for all the Windows folks, the goal should be to get rid of the viral operating system altogether and not to use anti-virus packages.

I’ve also enjoyed that only a few use Novell’s Mono C# port to Linux, imho, a totally useless project that should stop its existence. There is an open source Java that can cover all bases. C# should stay where it came from - Microsoft and their beloved Windows. On the other hand Eclipse and Qt rule the world :).

In related news KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 2 was published and I’m downloading both Live CDs (Kubuntu and OpenSuSe based) as I write this post, it should be amazing year this 2008…. Just a few days left before KDE 4.