[Editor’s Note: Since the big news of the week was
LinuxWorld, I’m donating my usual column-space this week to
most-worthy senior editor of internetnews.com, Sean Michael Kerner.
Kerner attended the show and lends his perspective on What It All
Means. Until next week, Peace. -BKP]
“There was a time when selling Linux (or even just writing about
it) was an evangelical endeavor. Users needed to be sold on Linux’s
benefits and, more importantly, assured that it actually
worked.“LinuxWorld after LinuxWorld, vendors upped the ante with new
technologies and genuinely new initiatives.“Not so at LinuxWorld San Francisco 2007. This is the year that
Linux is so mature, so stable, so tried and true, that it’s
actually, dare I say it? Boring.“Hey don’t give me that snarky look and don’t flame me. I’m not
the one who first said it. None other than Linux kernel maintainer
Andrew Morton expressed a similar sentiment on the very first day
of LinuxWorld.“‘The kernel is a very dull project and that’s the way we want
it to be,’ Morton said…”