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Why is linux not popular



Hi, all!
Before I continue, I'd like to say that I use linux (as workspace for 
molecular modeling research and writing bad C++), I love linux and I hope 
that some day philosophy behind linux will rule the world.
OK, now I can say some bad things:

1. Until Linux is not  _TRULY_ layman friendly, it has no chance in the 
battle with MS-Windows and even with Mac-OS. I use RH7.1 and (with all my 
respect to it) it is less friendly than Workbench 2.1 that I used to use with 
my Amiga 500. Well of course there are lots of of help sources, but everyone 
I know (including 2 programmers) think that they are too complicated. 

Look what mulix wrote as an answer on <gnubies-il@yahoogroups.com>:

>the simplest way would probably be to hack the sys_execve() syscall in
>the kernel, to fail unless requested by root. note that this will
>probably render your system useless (for example, any process that
>*drops* priviledges will fail), without extensive hacking.
 These lines where taken from <gnubies-il@yahoogroups.com>.
Well, it's like telling little child about sex through the central dogma of 
protein translation and molecular biology.
 (sorry, mulix ;-)   )

I don't know why, (or maybe I do know), but the Israeli popular computer 
press (like Captain Internet) barely remind Linux. Two years ago, I 
wrote Captain Internet and asked them to add a column dedicated to linux, but 
they never answered me.

2. HEBREW
I think it would be a good idea if someone release a _READY_ Hebrew enabled 
distro. When I say ready, I mean that user has to be able to read and wright  
Hebrew immediately after the installation (with no need to run scripts, 
change files etc)

3. Developers (or: Microsoft conspiration)
A friend of mine is a computer sciences student in a college (michlala) in 
Tel Aviv. Every student in that college (and in many others) can get freely 
MS-Studio from their library. More than that, they learn programming using 
this package in classrooms. It's like giving free examples of new (or old) 
medicines to doctors (I'm a pharmacist, and believe me it WORKS). Can anyone 
change this? 

Thanks all
Boris

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