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I think there was a window of time where this was not true and the majority (user-wise) of the Linux desktop was really strong, united, and standardized. This l
by danieldk 12y ago
I think there was a window of time where this was not true and the majority (user-wise) of the Linux desktop was really strong, united, and standardized. This lasted approximately from the mid-2000s until GNOME 3 and Unity.
- Ubuntu had a polished GNOME 2 desktop.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux had a polished GNOME 2 desktop.
- SUSE Enterprise Linux had a polished GNOME 2 desktop.
They were also using pretty much the same components. Since then, we had the MATE/GNOME 3/Unity/Cinnamon split and the upcoming X.org/Wayland/Mir split.
- XorNot 12y agoI'm skeptical Mir is going to be a serious split, and even then it'll be Mir/Wayland - both of those will still run X.Org apps via shim-servers, same way Mac OS does.
- Shorel 12y agoI seem to recall SUSE being a RPM based distribution but with KDE instead of Gnome.
- danieldk 12y agoTheir enterprise distributions were very much centered around GNOME. Remember that this is when they still had Xamarin.
- digi_owl 12y agoI find myself wondering if things started going to hell when https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Linux happened. Since then RH seems to have been on the warpath.