[Echo Talon]

this is why I'm afraid Linux is spinning is wheels instead of taking off... they have all these smart creative people spending all their time working on code, but in the end what are they doing? thats right reinventing the wheel, we have WAYY to may flavors with to may chiefs and not enough Indians,
seems like everyone has their own distribution.

[N3WBI3]

Meh, everyone is reinventing the wheel. Hell Active directory is nothing but a suite of application protocols that have existed for far longer than a decade. MS just packaged them up, quite nicely, and sold a system of preexisting ideas. Yet you'll here people talk about how revolutionary it is.

Look at Vista, we were promised a radical new file system, that was scratched instead we ended up with XP+..

[neb52]

I think Debian will find itself kick to the curb over this. Linux community has changed a lot in that "the purist lets keep Linux hard to use for us LEET" are becoming a smaller and smaller minority. Novell, Redhat and Ubuntu are distancing themselves by great strides from the other distros and I think one of those three if not all them will be a viable business model. As far as drivers go, I think Novell or Redhat need to get on the hardware selling wagon like Apple. I think that would resolve a lot of the driver issues. Right now ATI probably doesn't see a good market to spend time on Linux drivers. Just my humble opinion.

[Golden Eagle]

Exactly, if/when any of these open sourcers ever come up with anything decent, it gets forked into a hundred different slightly incompatible versions. No one actually controls the code, it's a free for all out there, as if using these obscure products wasn't difficult enough already.